sounding stormes. 27Then he saw it, and declared, and prepared, and searched it. 28And he sayd to man: Behold [1] the feare of our Lord, that is wisedom: and to [2] depart from euil, vnderstanding.
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IOB also added, taking [3] his parable, and sayd: 2Who wil grant me, that I may be according to the former months, according to the daies in which God kept me? 3When his lampe shined ouer my head, & I walked by his light in darknes? 4As I was in the daies of my youth, when God was secretly in my tabernacle? 5When the Omnipotent was with me: and my seruants round about me? 6When I washed my feet with butter, and the rocke powred me riuers of oile? 7When I went forth to the gate of the citie, and in the street they prepared me a chaire? 8Yong men saw me, and hid themselues: and old men rising vp stood. 9The Princes ceased to speake, and did put the finger vpon their mouth. 10Dukes held in their voice, and their tongue cleaued to their throte. 11The eare hearing counted me blessed, and the eie seeing gaue testimonie to me: 12For that I had deliuered the poore man crying out, and the pupil, that had no helper. 13The blessing of him that was readie to perish came vpon me, and I comforted the hart of the widow. 14I was clothed with iustice: and I reuested me with my iudgement, as with a garment and crowne. 15I was an eie to the blind, and a foote to the lame. 16I was the father of the poore: and the cause which I knew not, I searched most diligently. 17I brake the iawes of the wicked man, and out of his teeth I tooke away the prey. 18And I said: I wil die in my litle nest, and as a palmetree wil multiplie daies. 19My roote is opened beside the waters, and dew shal continue in my haruest. 20My glorie shal alwaies be renewed, and my bow in my hand shal be repayred. 21They that heard me, expected sentence, and attent held their peace at my counsel. 22To my words they durst adde nothing, and my speach distilled vpon them. 23They expected me as rayne, and they opened their mouth as it were to a lateward shower. 24If at anie time I laughed on them, they belieued not, and the light of my countenance fel not on the earth. 25If I would haue gone to them, I sate first, and when I sate [4] as a King with his armie standing about him, yet was I a comforter of them that mourned.
- ↑ When man hath considered Gods workes, his dutie is to feare God.
- ↑ Then to depart from euil & doe good.
- ↑ Parables are not only similitudes of things but also pithie and profound sentences, such as Iob, Salomon, and other wisest men vttered.
- ↑ This particle (as) importeth not here a similitude, but rather that he was a very King or supreme Prince, as hauing supreme authoritie. v. 7. royal vesture and crowne v. 14. Isidorus li. de vita Sanct. Beda & aly.
