The Bible and Holy Scriptures conteyned in the Olde and Newe Testament. Translated according to the Ebrue and Greke, and conferred with the best translations in diuers languges. VVith moste profitable annotations vpon all the hard places, and other things of great importance as may appeare in the epistle to the reader

CHAP. II.

The imaginacions and desires of the wicked, and their coun sel against the faithful.

1 FOr (the vn godlie) say, as they safely ima gine with thē selues, Our life is shorte and tedious: and in the death of a man the* 1.1 re is no recouerie, nether was any knowē* 1.2 that hathe returned from the graue.* 1.3

2 For we are borne at all aduenture, and we shalbe here after as thogh we had neuer bene: for the breth is a smoke in our no∣strels, and the wordes as a sparke raised out of our heart.

3 Which being extinguished, the body is tur ned into ashes, and the spirit vanisheth as the soft aire.

4 Out life shal passe away as the trace of a cloude, & come to 〈◊〉〈◊〉 as the mist that is driuē away with the beaumes of the sun ne, and cast 〈◊〉〈◊〉 with the heat thereof. Our name also shalbe for 〈◊〉〈◊〉 in time, & no man shal haue our workes in remem∣brance,

5 * For our time is as a shadowe that passeth* 1.4 away, and after our end there is no retur∣ning: for it is fast sealed, so that no man co∣meth againe.* 1.5

6 * Come therefore, and let vs enioye the* 1.6 pleasures, that are present, and let vs chere fully vse the creatures, as in youth.

7 Let vs fill our selues with costlie wine and ointements, and let not the floure of life passe by vs.

8 Let vs crowne our selues with rose buddes a fore they be withered.

9 Let vs all be partakers of our wantonnes: let vs leaue some token of our pleasure in euerie place: for that is our porcion, and this is our lotte.

10 Let vs oppresse the poore, that is righ∣teous let vs not spare the widdowe, nor re uerence the white heeres of the aged, that haue liued many yeres.

11 Let our strēgth be the lawe of vnrighteous nes: for the things that is feble, is reproued as vn profitable.

12 Therfore let vs defraude the righteous: for he is not for our profite and he is contrarie to our doings: he checketh vs for offen∣ding against the Lawe, and blameth vs as transgressours of discipline.

13 He maketh his boaste to haue the knowled ge of God: and he calleth him self the son∣ne of the Lord,

14 He is made * to reproue our thoghts.

15 It grieueth vs also to loke * vpon him: for* 1.7 his life is not like other mens: his waies are* 1.8 of another facion.* 1.9

16 He counteth vs as bastardes, and he with∣dra weth him self from our waies as from fil thines: he commendeth greatly the latter end of the iust, and boasteth that God is his father.

17 Let vs se (then) if his worde be true: let vs proue what end he shal haue.

18 For if the righteous man be the * sonne of* 1.10 God, he wil helpe him, and deliuer him* 1.11 frō the hands of his enemies.

19 Let vs * examine him with rebukes and* 1.12 tor ments, that we may knowe his mekenes, & proue his pacience.

20 Let vs condemne him vnto a shameful death: for he shal be preserued as he him self saith.

21 Suche things do they image, & go astraye for their owne wickednes hathe blinded them.

22 And they do not vnderstand the misteries of God, nether hope for the rewarde of righteousnes, nor can discerne the honour of the soules that are fauteles.

23 For God created man without corruptiō & made him after the * image of his owne likenes.* 1.13

24 * Neuertheles, thorow enuy of the* 1.14 deuii came death into the worlde: and they that* 1.15 holde of his side proue it.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Iob 7. 1.
• * 1.2

  〈◊〉〈◊〉 27.
• * 1.3

  〈◊〉〈◊〉 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
• * 1.4

  2. Chro 29. 〈◊〉〈◊〉. chap. 5. 9.
• * 1.5

  Isa. 22. 13 & 56. 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
• * 1.6

  1. 〈◊〉〈◊〉. 〈◊〉〈◊〉. 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
• * 1.7

  Iob 7. 7.
• * 1.8

  〈◊〉〈◊〉. 5. 13.
• * 1.9

  Isa. 53. 3.
• * 1.10

  〈◊〉〈◊〉, 〈◊〉〈◊〉. 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
• * 1.11

  mac. 27. 41.
• * 1.12

  Iere. 11. 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
• * 1.13

  Gene. 1. 27. & 2. 〈◊〉〈◊〉. & 5. 1.
• * 1.14

  eccles. 17. 2.
• * 1.15

  Gen. 3. 2,