욥기 12장 Coverdale Bible
- 1 So Iob answered, and sayde:
- 2 Then (no doute) ye are the men alone, and wy?dome shal perish with you.
- 3 But I haue vnderstodinge as well as ye, and am no lesse then ye. Yee who knoweth not these thinges?
- 4 Thus he that calleth vpo God, and whom God heareth, is mocked of his neghboure: the godly & innocent man is laughed to scorne.
- 5 Godlynesse is a light despysed in ye hertes of the rich, & is set for them to stomble vpon.
- 6 The houses of robbers are in wealth and prosperite, & they that maliciously medle agaynst God, dwel without care: yee God geueth all thinges richely with his honde.
- 7 Axe the catell, & they shal enfourme the: the foules of the ayre, and they shall tell ye:
- 8 Speake to the earth, and it shall shewe the: Or to the fyshes of the see, and they shal certifie the.
- 9 What is he, but he knoweth, that ye hode of the LORDE made all these?
- 10 In whose honde is the soule of euery lyuynge thinge, and the breth of all men.
- 11 Haue not the eares pleasure in hearinge, and the mouth in tastinge the thinge that it eateth?
- 12 Amonge olde personnes there is wy?dome, and amonge the aged is vnderstodinge.
- 13 Yee with God is wy?dome and strength, it is he that hath councell & foreknowlege.
- 14 Yf he breake downe a thinge, who can set it vp agayne? Yf he shutt a thinge, who wil open it?
- 15 Beholde, yf he witholde the waters, they drye vp: Yf he let the go, they destroye the earth.
- 16 With him is strength and wy?dome: he knoweth both the disceauer, and him that is disceaued.
- 17 He carieth awaye the wyse men, as it were a spoyle, and bryngeth the iudges out of their wyttes.
- 18 He lowseth the gyrdle of kynges, and gyrdeth their loynes with a bonde.
- 19 he ledeth awaye the prestes into captiuyte, and turneth the mightie vp syde downe.
- 20 He taketh the verite from out of the mouth, & disapoynteth ye aged of their wy?dome.
- 21 He poureth out confucion vpon prynces, and coforteth them that haue bene oppressed.
- 22 Loke what lyeth hyd in darcknesse, he declareth it opely: and the very shadowe of death bringeth he to light.
- 23 He both increaseth the people, and destroyeth them: He maketh them to multiplie, and dryueth them awaye.
- 24 He chaungeth the herte of the prynces and kynges of the earth, and disapoynteth them: so that they go wadringe out of the waye,
- 25 and grope in the darke without light, stackeringe to and fro like droncken men.