this

His substance also was seuen thousand sheepe, and three thousand camels, and fiue hundred yoke of oxen, and fiue hundred shee asses, and a very great houshold; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the East.

1611 marginal noteOr, cattell.

1611 marginal noteOr, husbandrie.

1611 marginal noteHeb. sonnes of the East.

In all this Iob sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.

1611 marginal noteOr, attributed folly to God.

But he said vnto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh; what? shall wee receiue good at the hand of God, and shall wee not receiue euill? In all this did not Iob sinne with his lippes.

¶ Now when Iobs three friends heard of all this euill, that was come vpon him, they came euery one from his owne place: Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; for they had made an appointment together to come to mourne with him, and to comfort him.

¶ After this, opened Iob his mouth, and cursed his day.

Is not this thy feare, thy confidence; the vprightnesse of thy wayes and thy hope?

Loe this, wee haue searched it, so it is; heare it, and know thou it for thy good.

1611 marginal noteHeb. for thyselfe.

Beholde, th is is the ioy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow.

This is one thing, therefore I said it; he destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.

And these things hast thou hid in thine heart; I know that this is with thee.