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Chap. V.

 

Eliphaz prosecuteth his discourse to conuince Iob of great sinnes, because he is so vehemently afflicted: 17. exhorteth him therfore to acknowledge his sinnes, so al things shal succeed prosperously.

 

CAL therfore ^[1] if there be that wil answer thee, and ″ turn to some of the Saints. ²Anger indeed killeth the foolish, and enuie sleaeth the litle one. ³I haue seene a foole with firme roote, and I cursed his beautie by and by. ⁴His children shal be made far from saluation, and shal be destroyed in the gate, and there shal be none to deliuer. ⁵Whose haruest the hungrie shal eate, and the armed shal take him by violence, and the thirstie shal drinke his riches. ⁶Nothing in the earth is done without a cause, and out of the ground sorrow shall not rise. ^{7 [2]} Man is borne to labour, and the bird to flight. ⁸For the which thing I wil besech our Lord, and toward God I wil set my speach: ⁹Who doeth great and vnsearchable and meruelous things without number: ¹⁰Who giueth raine vpon the face of the earth, and watereth al things with waters: ¹¹Who setteth the humble on high, and them that are in heauinesse he comforteth with health: ¹²Who dissipateth the cogitations of the malignant, that their hands can not accomplish that which they began: ¹³Who apprehendeth the wise in their subtilitie, and dissipateth the counsel of the wicked: ¹⁴By day they shal incurre darkenesse, and as it were in the night, so shal they grope at noone daies. ¹⁵Moreouer he shal saue the needy from the sword of their mouth, and the poore from the hand of the violent. ¹⁶And to the needie there shal be hope, but iniquitie shal draw together her mouth. ¹⁷Blessed is the man that is corrected of God: refuse not therfore the chastising of our Lord: ¹⁸Because he woundeth, and cureth: striketh, & his hands shal heale. ¹⁹In ^[3] six tribulations he shal deliuer thee, and in the ^[4] seuenth euil shal not touch thee. ²⁰In famine he shal deliuer thee from death, and in battel from the hand of the sword. ²¹From the scourge of the tongue thou shalt be hid; and thou shalt not feare calamitie when it commeth. ²²In waste and famine thou shalt laugh, & the beasts of the earth thou shalt not feare. ²³But with the stones of the landes thy couenant, and the beasts of the earth shal be peaceable to thee. ²⁴And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle hath peace, and visiting thy beautie, thou shalt not sinne. ²⁵Thou shalt know also that thy seed shal be manifold, and thy progenie as the grasse of the earth. ²⁶Thou shalt enter into the graue in abundance, as a heape of wheate is caryed in his time. ²⁷Behold, this is euen so, as we haue searched out: which thou hauing heard reuolue in thy mind.

1. This disputer hauing pretended an imaginarie vision from God against Iob, now he supposeth that neither God nor Angel nor other holie person wil patronage his cause, nor iudge of his case as he doth, but that al wil condemne him of impatience, follie, envie, & other sinnes.
2. This Prouerb importeth that a man must not thinke to passe his life without trauel, but must get his bread with sweat of his browes, or suffer other calamities.
3. Gods goodnes deliuereth his seruants the space of this laborious life:
4. And most especially in the houre of death. S. Greg. li. 6. c. 18.