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lest ye shulde prayse youre selues, to haue founde out wy?dome: because it is God that hath cast him out, & no man.

Why doest thou then stryue agaynst him, because he geueth the no accomptes of all his doinges?

O father, let Iob be well tryed, because he he hath turned himself to ye wicked:

Yf eny soch complayne, no ma geueth answere, and yt because of the wickednesse off proude tyrauntes.

Teach vs what we shal saye vnto hi, for we are vnmete because of darcknes.

Mayest thou trust hi (because he is stroge) or comitte thy labor vnto hi?

And that because God hath taken wisdome from him, & hath not geuen him vnderstondinge.

Lede me (o LORDE) in thy rightuousnesse, because of myne enemyes, ad make thy waye playne before me.

Punysh them (o God) that they maye perish in their owne ymaginacions: cast them out because of the multitude of their vngodlinesse, for they rebell agaynst the.

Agayne, let all them that put their trust in the, reioyse: yee let them euer be geuynge of thankes, because thou defendest them: that they which loue thy name, maye be ioyfull in the.

Out of the mouth of the very babes & sucklinges thou hast ordened prayse, because of thine enemies, yt thou mightest destroye the enemie and the auenger.

Because thou hast dryue myne enemies abacke, they were discofited, & perished at thy presence.

Now for the troubles sake off the oppressed, & because of the complaynte of the poore, I wil vp (sayeth the LORDE) I wil helpe the, and set the at rest.

As for you, ye haue made a mocke at the coucell of the poore, because he putteth his trust in the LORDE. Oh yt the sauynge health were geuen vnto Israel out off Sion. Oh that the LORDE wolde delyuer his people out of captiuyte. The shulde Iacob reioyse, and Israel shulde be right glad.

Because of the wordes of thy lippes, I haue kepte me fro the workes of men, in ye waye off the murthurer.

The the earth trembled & quaked, the very foudacios of the hilles shoke & were remoued, because he was wrothe.

He brought me forth also into lyberte: & delyuered me, because he had a fauor vnto me.

And why? because the kinge putteth his trust in the LORDE, & in the mercy of the most hiest he shal not myscary.

For my father and my mother haue forsaken me, but the LORDE hath taken me vp. Shewe me thy waye O LORDE, and lede me in the right path, because of myne enemies.

My stregth fayleth me because of my aduersite, and my bones are corrupte.