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[1] And Eliphas the Themanite aunswered, & sayde
[2] If we assay to come with thee, wilt thou be discontent? But who can withhold him selfe from speaking
[3] Beholde, thou hast ben an instructer of many, & hast strenghtned the weery handes
[4] Thy wordes haue set vp him that was falling, thou hast refreshed the weake knees
[5] But nowe it is come vpon thee, and thou art greeued: it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled
[6] Was not thy feare according to thy hope? and the perfectnesse of thy wayes according to thy expectation
[7] Consider I pray thee who euer perished beyng an innocent? or when were the godly destroyed
[8] For as I haue proued by experience, they that plow iniquitie & sow wretchednesse, reape the same
[9] With the blast of God they perishe, with the breath of his nostrels are they consumed away
[10] The roring of the lion, and the voyce of the lion, and the teeth of the lions whelpes are pulled out
[11] The lion perisheth for lake of pray, & the lions whelpes are scattered abrode
[12] But wheras a thing was hyd from me, yet myne care hath receaued a litle therof
[13] In the thoughtes and visions of the night when sleepe commeth on men
[14] Feare came vpon me & dread, which made all my bones to shake
[15] The winde passed by before my presence, and made the heeres of my fleshe to stande vp
[16] He stoode thereon and I knewe not his face, an image there was before myne eyes, and in the stilnesse hearde I a voyce
[17] Shall man be more iust then God? or shall a man be purer then his maker
[18] Beholde, he founde not trueth in his seruauntes, and in his angels there was folly
[19] Howe much more in them that dwel in houses of clay, and whose foundation is but dust, which shall be consumed as it were with a moth
[20] They shalbe smitten from the morning vnto the euening: yea they shall perishe for euer, when no man regardeth them
[21] Is not their royaltie gone away with them? they shall dye truely, and not in wysdome
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