man: but by night he wil be as a theefe. 15The eie of the aduouterer obserueth darkenesse, saying: Eie shal not see me: and he wil couer his face. 16He diggeth through houses in the darke, as in the day they had oppoynted with them selues, and they haue not knowen the light. 18If sodenly the morning shal appeare, they thinke it the shadow of death: and they walke so in darkenesse as it were in light. 19He is light aboue the face of the water: cursed be his portion in the earth, neither walke he by the way of the vineyardes. 19Let him passe ∷[1] from snowe waters to exceding heate, and his sinne euen vnto hel. 20Let mercie forget him: wormes his sweetnes: be he not in remembrance, but be he broken in peeces as an vnfruitful tree. 21For he hath fedd the barren, and her that bareth not, and to the widow he hath not done good. 22He hath pulled downe the strong in his strength, and when he shal stand, he wil not credit his life. 23God hath geuen him place for penance, and he ∷[2] abuseth it vnto pride: but his eies be vpon his waies. 24They are eleuated for a litle, and shal not stand, and shal be humbled as al thinges, and shal be taken away, and as the toppes of the eares of corne they shal be broken. 25And if it be not so, who can reproue me that I haue lied, and set my wordes before God?
Chap. XXV.
Baldad endeuoreth againe to terrifie Iob, with Gods iudgement, from appealing therto, and from auouching his owne innocencie.
BVt Baldad the Suhite answering, sayd: 2Power and terrour is with him, that maketh concord in his high ones. 3Is there anie number of his souldiars? and vpon whom shal not his light arise, ∷[3] 4can man be iustified compared with God, or the borne of a woman appeare cleane? 5Behold the moone also doth not shine, and the starres are not cleane in his sight. 6How much more man rottennes, & the some of man a worme?
Chap. XXVI.
Iob refuteth his aduersariese needles and common argumentes, by more sound discoursing of Gods powre, and wisdome.
BVt Iob answering, sayd: ∷[4] 2Whose helper art thou? his that is weake? and doest thou hold vp the arme of him, that is not strong? 3To whom hast thou geuen counsel?
- ↑ Sinners running into both extremes of defect and excesse, are likewise punished with contrarie tormentes.
- ↑ Man by powre of free wil oftē presumeth to spend the time in sinning which God granteth him to do penance, for former sinnes, Rom 2.
- ↑ Iob answered before. ch. 9. yet blind and obstinate disputers stil repete the same obiections.
- ↑ Iob sheweth that neither God nedeth mans helpe:
