Omnipotent. 14If his children be multiplied, they shal be in the sword, & nephewes shal not be filled with bread. 15They that shal be least of him, shal be buried in death, and his widowes shal not weepe. 16If he shal heape together siluer as earth, and as clay shal prepare garmentes: 17He shal prepare in deede, but the iust man shal be clothed with them: and the innocent shal diuide the siluer. 18He hath built his house as a moth, and as a keeper hath he made a bowre. 19The rich man ∷[1] when he shal sleepe shal take away nothing with him: he shal oppen his eies, & finde nothing. 20Pouertie as water shal apprehend him, in the night a tempest shal oppresse him. 21The burning wind shal take him vp, and cary him away, and as a whirlewinde shal pul him violently out of his place. 22And he shal cast vpon him, and shal not spare: out of his hand fleing he shal flee. 23He shal claspe his handes vpon him, and shal hisse vpon him, beholding his place.
Chap. XXVIII.
The maruelous workes of God, the author of nature, shew his powre and wisdome, 12. and that true riches consist not in temporal creatures, but in wisdome, 28. and feare of God.
SIlver hath ∷[2] beginnings of her vaines, and gold hath a place, where in it is molten. 2Yron is taken out of the earth, and stone resolued with heate, is turned into brasse. 3He hath set a time for darkenesse, and the end of al thinges he considereth, the stone also of darkenesse, and the shadow of death. 4The ∷[3] torrent diuideth from the pilgrime people, them whom the foote of the needie man hath forgotten, and to whom there is no way. 5The land, out of which bread grew in his place, is destroyed with fire. 6The place of the sapphire the stones thereof, and the cloddes of it gold. 7The bird hath not knowen the path, neither hath the eie of the vulter beheld it. 8The children of merchantes haue not troden it, neither hath the lionesse passed by it. 9He hath stretched forth his hand to the flint, he hath ouerthrowen mountaines from the rootes. 10In the rockes he hath cut out riuers, and his eie hath seene euerie pretious thing. 11The depthes also of riuers he hath searched, & hid things he hath brought forth to light: 12But where is wisdome to be found, and what is the place of vnderstanding? 13Man knoweth not the price therof, ∷[4] neither is it found in the land of them
- ↑ Some part of Gods iudgement falleth on the wicked in this life, but especially at their death. Psal. 75.
- ↑ By these more precious and rare creatures, men ought to consider the creator and so not set their rest in them, but in him, which is true wisdome.
- ↑ Sudaine headie waters bursting out do change the wayes and passages of men.
- ↑ True wisdom is not in natural thinges, but in supernatural vertues.
