the citie be inhabited: but the stocke of the wicked shalbe wasted incontinently.
5 Manie suche things haue I sene with mine eyes, and mine eare hathe heard greater things then these.
6 * In the congregatiō of the vngodlie shal a fyre be kindeled, and among vnfaithful people shal the wrath be set on fyre.
7 * He spared not the olde gyāts, which were rebellious, trusting to their owne strenght,
8 * Nether spared he where as Lot dwelt, tho se whome he abhorred for their pride.
9 He had no pitie vpon the people that we∣re destroyed, and puffed vp in their sins.
10 * And so he preserued the six hundreth thousand fotemen, that were gathered in the hardnes of their heart, in afflicting thē & pitying them, in smiting them and hea∣ling thē, with mercie, & with chastisement.
11 Therefore if there be one stiffe necked among the people, it is marueil if he scape vnpunished: for mercie and wrathare with him: he is mightie to forgiue, & to powre out displeasure.
12 * As his mercie is great, so is his punish∣ment also: he iudgeth a man according to his workes.
13 The vngodlie shal not escape with his spoi le, and the pacience of the godlie shal not be delayed.
14 He wil giue place to all good dedes, and euerie one shal finde according to his wor kes, [and after the vnderstanding of his pilgrimage.]
15 The Lord hardened Pharao, that he shulde not knowe him, and that his workes shul∣de be knowen vpon the earth vnder the heauen.
16 His mercie is knowen to all creatures: he hathe separate his light from the darknes with an adamant.
17 Say not thou, I wil hide my self from the Lord: for who wil thinke vpō me frō aboue I shal not be knowen in so great an heape of people: for what is my soule among su∣che an infinite nomber of creatures?
18 Beholde, the heauen, and the * heauen of heauens, which are for God, the depth, and the earth, and all that therein is, shalbe mo ued when he shal visite.
19 All the worlde which is created and made by his wil, the mountaines also, and the fun dacions of the earth shal shake for feare, when the Lord loketh vpon them.
20 These things doeth no heart vnderstand worthely, [but he vnderstandeth euerie heart.]
21 And who vnderstandeth his wayes? and the storme that no man can se? for the mo∣ste parte of his workes are hid.
22 Who can declare the workes of his righ∣teousnes? or who can abide them? for his or dinance is farre of, and the trying out of all things faileth.
23 He that is humble of heart, wil consider I these things: but an vn wise and erronious mā casteth his minde vpon foolish things.
24 My sonne, hearken vnto me, and learne knowledge, and marke my wordes with thine heart.
25 I wil declare thee weightie doctrine, & wil instruct thee exactly in knowledge.
26 The Lord hathe set his workes in good order frō the beginning, & parte of them hathe he sundred from the other when he first made them.
27 He hathe garnished his workes for euer, and their beginnings so lōg as they shal in dure, they are not hungrie nor wearied in their labours, nor cease from their offices.
28 None of them hindreth another, nether was anie of them disobedient vnto his wordes.
29 After this the Lord loked vpon the earth and filled it with his goods things.
30 With all maner of liuing beasts hathe he couered the face thereof, and they returne into it againe.