1Then Iob answered, and sayde, 2No doubt but ye [are] the people, and wisdom shall die with you. 3But I haue vnderstanding aswel as you, and am not inferior vnto you: yea, who knoweth not such things? 4I am [as] one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright [man is] laughed to scorn. 5He that is ready to slip with [his] feet [is as] a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease. 6The tabernacles of robbers doe prosper, and they are in safetie, that prouoke God, whome God hath enriched with his hand. 7But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee: 8Or speake to the earth, and it shall shewe thee: or the fishes of the sea, and they shall declare vnto thee. 9Who is ignorant of all these, but that the hande of the Lord hath made these? 10In whose hande is the soule of euery liuing thing, and the breath of all mankinde. 11Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat? 12With the ancient [is] wisdom; and in length of days understanding. 13With him is wisedome and strength: he hath counsell and vnderstanding. 14Beholde, he will breake downe, and it can not be built: he shutteth a man vp, and he can not be loosed. 15Beholde, he withholdeth the waters, and they drie vp: but when he sendeth them out, they destroy the earth. 16With him [is] strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver [are] his. 17He causeth the counsellers to goe as spoyled, and maketh the iudges fooles. 18He looseth the bond of kings, and girdeth their loins with a girdle. 19He leadeth away the princes as a pray, and ouerthroweth the mightie. 20He removeth away the speech of the trusty, and taketh away the understanding of the aged. 21He powreth contempt vpon princes, and maketh the strength of the mightie weake. 22He discouereth the deepe places from their darkenesse, and bringeth foorth the shadowe of death to light. 23He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth them [again]. 24He taketh away the heartes of the that are the chiefe ouer the people of the earth, & maketh them to wander in the wildernes out of the way. 25They grope in the darke without light: and he maketh the to stagger like a drunken ma.