throte. 11The eare hearing counted me blessed, and the eie seing 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 conforted 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 praye. 18And I said: I wil die in my litle nest, & as a palmetree wil multiplie daies. 19My roote is opened beside the waters, and dewe 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 wordes 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 beleued 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 ∷[1] as a king, with his armie standing about him, yet was I a conforter of them that mourned.
Chap. XXX.
Holie Iob sheweth the great change of his temporal estate, from welfare into great calamitie.
BVt now they of yonger time scorne me, whose fathers I vouchsafed not to put ∷[2] with the dogs of my flocke: 2The force of whose handes was to me as nothing, and they were thought vnworthie of life itself. 3Barren with pouertie and famine, who gnawed in the wildernes, il fauoured by calamitie and miserie. 4And they did eate grasse, and the barkes of trees, and the roote of iunipers was their meat. 5Who taking these thinges violently out of the valles, when they had found euerie thing, they ranne to them with a crie. 6They dwelt in the deserts of torrentes, and in caues of the earth, or vpon grauel. 7Who reioysed among these kind of thinges, and counted it delicacies to be vnder the briars. 8The children of foolish and base men, and in the earth not appearing at al. 9Now am I turned into their song, and
- ↑ 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 sacnt. Beda & aly.
- ↑ Men scarse fitte to haue care of dogges derided Iob in his affliction so he was contemned of the most contemptible.
