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The Great Bible 1539
| 22:1 | So Eliphas the Themanite gaue answere, and sayde: |
| 22:2 | Maye a man be profitable vnto God, as he that is wyse maye be profytable to hym selfe? |
| 22:3 | Is it any vauntage to the Allmyghtye that thou art ryghteous? Or shall it profyte hym, that thou makest thy wayes perfect? |
| 22:4 | Is he afrayed to reproue the, and to steppe forth with the into iudgment? |
| 22:5 | Is not thy wickednesse greate, and thyne vngracious dedes innumerable? |
| 22:6 | For thou hast taken the pledge from thy brother for naught, and robbed the naked of their clothinge: |
| 22:7 | To soche as were weery hast thou geuen no water to drincke, & hast withdrawen bred from the hungrye: |
| 22:8 | Shulde soch one then as vseth violence, wrong & oppression (doing all thinge of parcialite, and hauinge respecte of personnes) dwell in the lande? |
| 22:9 | Thou hast sent wyddowes awaye emptie and oppressed the poore fatherlesse. |
| 22:10 | Therfore art thou compassed aboute with snares on euery syde, and sodenly vexed with feare. |
| 22:11 | Shuldest thou then se no darckenesse? Shulde not the water floude runne ouer the? |
| 22:12 | Now because that God is hyer then the heauens, and because thou seyst that the starres are so hye, |
| 22:13 | wilt thou therfore saye: Tushe, how shulde God knowe? Doth his dominyon reache beyonde the cloudes? |
| 22:14 | Tush, the cloudes couer him that he maye not se, & he dwelleth aboue heauen. |
| 22:15 | Dost not thou kepe the olde waye, that vayne men haue gone? |
| 22:16 | Which were cut downe out of tyme, and whose foundacyon was as a runnynge water, |
| 22:17 | which sayed vnto God: go from vs, and what dyd the Allmyghtye with them? |
| 22:18 | He fylled theyr houses with good thinges. But the councell of the vngodly is farre fro me. |
| 22:19 | The ryghteous sawe it and were glad, and the innocent laughed them to scorne. |
| 22:20 | Is oure increase hewen downe? As for the remnaunt of them, the fyre hath consumed it. |
| 22:21 | Therfore reconcile the vnto God, and be content, so shall all thinges prospere with the ryght well. |
| 22:22 | Receaue the lawe at his mouth, and laye vp his wordes in thyne herte. |
| 22:23 | For yf thou wilt turne to the Almightye, thou shall stande fast, and put all vnrighteousnesse from thy dwellynge: |
| 22:24 | Thou shall make golde as plentifull as the dust, and the golde of Ophir as the flyntes of the ryuers. |
| 22:25 | Yee, Almightye God hys awne selfe shalbe thy defence, and thou shalt haue plentye of syluer. |
| 22:26 | Then shalt thou haue thy delite in the Almightie, & lyft vp thy face vnto God. |
| 22:27 | Then shalt thou make thy prayer vnto him, and he shall heare the, and thou shalt kepe thy promyses. |
| 22:28 | Then, loke what thou takest in hand, he shall make it to prospere with the, and the lyght shall shyne in the wayes. |
| 22:29 | For who so humbleth hym selfe, him shall be set vp: and who so loketh mekely, shalbe healed. |
| 22:30 | If thou be innocent thou shalt deliuer the countre because of the vngyltynesse of thyne handes. |
The Great Bible 1539
The Great Bible of 1539 was the first authorized edition of the Bible in English, authorized by King Henry VIII of England to be read aloud in the church services of the Church of England. The Great Bible was prepared by Myles Coverdale, working under commission of Thomas, Lord Cromwell, Secretary to Henry VIII and Vicar General. In 1538, Cromwell directed the clergy to provide "one book of the bible of the largest volume in English, and the same set up in some convenient place within the said church that ye have care of, whereas your parishioners may most commodiously resort to the same and read it."