I know your cogitations, and vniust sentences agaynst me. 28For you say: Where is the house of the prince? and where are the tabernacles of the impious? 29Aske anie of the wayfaring men, and you shal vnderstand that he knoweth these self same thinges. 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 thinges that he hath done? 32He shal be brought to the graues, and shal watch in the heade of the dead. 33He hath beene sweete to the grauel of ∷[1] Cocytus, & after him he shal drawe euerie man, and before him innumerable. 34How therfore doe ye comforth me in vayne, whereas your answer is shewed to be repugnant to the truth?
Chap. XXII.
Eliphaz contendeth that God is not pleased with a iust mans afflictions. 5. falsly imputeth enormious crimes to holie Iob, 12. and grosse errors. 21. wisheth him therfore to repent, that so he may prosper.
BVt Eliphaz the Themanite answering, sayd: 2Can man be compared with God, yea though he be of perfect knowlege. 3What doth it ∷[2] 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 geuen, 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 pupiiles thou hast broken in peeces. 10Therfore art thou compassed with snares, and soden feare trubleth thee. 11And thoughtest thou that thou shouldest not see darkenes, 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 toppe of the starres? 13And thou sayest: For what knoweth God? and he iudgeth as it were by a mist. 14The cloudes are his couert, ∷[3] neither doth he consider our thinges, and he walketh about the poles of heauen 15Doest thou couet to keepe the path of worldes, which wicked men haue troden? 16Who
- ↑ a riuer of hel.
- ↑ In dede whē 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, and it redoundeth to Gods glorie that he hath such seruantes. Mat. 5. v. 17.
- ↑ After imputation of false crimes, this disputer chargeth holie Iob also with heathnish error of the Ægyptians, that God hath so prouidence of men in this world Aristotel li. de mundo. textu. 84. So some heretikes in their phrensie accuse Catholiques of condemned heresies.
