& where are the tabernacles of the impious? 29Aske anie of the wayfaring men, & you shall vnderstand that he knoweth these self-same things. 30Because the euil man is kept vnto the day of perdition, and he shal be led to the day of furie. 31Who shal reproue his way before him? and who shal repay him the things that he hath done? 32He shal be brought to the graues, and shal watch in the head of the dead. 33He hath been sweet to the grauel of a riuer of hel* Cocytus, and after him he shal drawe euerie man, and before him innumerable. 34How therfore doe ye comfort me in vayne, whereas your answer is shewed to be repugnant to the truth?
CHAP. XXII.
The seuenth conflict
BVT Eliphaz the Themanite answering, sayd: 2Can man be compared with God, yea though he be of perfect knowledge. 3What doth it [1] profite God if thou be iust? or what doest thou aduantage him if thy way be vnspotted? 4Shal he be afrayde to reproue thee, and come with thee into iudgement: 5And not for thy very great malice, and thine infinite iniquities? 6For thou hast taken away the pledge of thy brethren without cause, and the naked thou hast spoyled of clothes. 7Water to the wearie thou hast not giuen, and from the hungrie thou hast withdrawen bread. 8In the strength of thine arme thou didst possesse the earth, and being the mightiest thou didst obteyne it. 9Widowes thou hast sent away emptie, and the armes of pupils thou hast broken in pieces. 10Therfore art thou compassed with snares, and sodain feare troubleth thee. 11And thoughtest thou that thou shouldest not see darkeness, and that thou shouldest not be oppressed with the violence of ouerflowing waters? 12Doest thou not thinke that God is higher then heauen, and is exalted aboue the top of the starres? 13And thou sayst: For what knoweth God? and he iudgeth as it were by a mist. 14The clouds are his couert, [2] neither doth he consider our things, and he walketh about the poles of heauen. 15Doest thou couet to keep the path of worlds, which wicked men haue troden? 16Who were taken away before their time, and a floud hath ouerthrowen their foundation. 17Who sayd to God: Depart from vs; and as though the Omnipotent could doe nothing, they esteemed him: 18Whereas he had filled their houses with good things, whose sentence be far from me. 19The iust shal see, & shal reioyse, & the innocent man shal skorne them. 20Is
- ↑ Indeed when a iust man hath donne his dutie he is vnprofitable to God: but he is profitable to himself, which greatly pleaseth God, who desireth mans good, & it redoundeth to Gods glorie that he hath such seruants. Mat. 5. v. 17.
- ↑ After imputation of false crimes, this disputer chargeth holie Iob also with heathenish errour of the Ægyptians, that God hath no prouidence of men in this world. Aristotel li. de mundo. textu. 84. So some heretikes in their phrensie accuse Catholikes of condemned heresies.
