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Matthew's Bible 1537
| 12:1 | So Iob answered, and sayde: |
| 12:2 | Then (no doute) ye are the men alone, and wysdom shall perysh wyth you. |
| 12:3 | But I haue vnderstandyng as well as ye, and am no lesse then ye. Ye who knoweth not these thinges? |
| 12:4 | Thus he that calleth vpon God, & whom God heareth, is mocked of hys neyghboure: the godlye and innocent man is laughed to scorne. |
| 12:5 | Godlynesse is a light despysed in the hertes of the ryche, and is set for them to stomble vpon. |
| 12:6 | The houses of robbers are in wealth & prosperite, and they that maliciously medle agaynst God, dwell without care: ye God geueth all thinges rychely with hys hande. |
| 12:7 | Aske the catell, & they shall infourme the: the fowles of the ayre, and they shall tell the: |
| 12:8 | Speake to the earth, & it shall shewe the: Or to the fysshes of the sea, and they shall certifie the. |
| 12:9 | What is he, but he knoweth that the hande of the Lorde made all these? |
| 12:10 | In whose hande is the soule of euery lyuynge thinge, & the breth of all men. |
| 12:11 | Haue not the eares pleasure in hearinge, & the mouth in tastinge the thinge that it eateth? |
| 12:12 | Amonge olde personnes there is wysdome, & amonge the aged is vnderstandinge. |
| 12:13 | Ye with God is wysdome and strength, it is he that hath councell and forknowlege. |
| 12:14 | If he breake downe a thinge, who can set it vp agayne? If he shut a thing, who wyll open it? |
| 12:15 | Beholde, yf he witholde the waters, they drye vp: Yf he let them go, they destroye the earth. |
| 12:16 | With hym is strength and wysdome: he knoweth bothe the disceyuer & hym that is disceyued. |
| 12:17 | He caryeth awaye the wyse men, as it were a spoyle, and bringeth the iudges out of their wyttes. |
| 12:18 | He lowseth the gyrdle of kynges, and gyrdeth theyr loynes with a bonde. |
| 12:19 | He ledeth awaye the Preastes in to captyuyte, and turneth the myghtye vpsyde downe. |
| 12:20 | He taketh the verite from out of the mouth, & disapoynteth the aged of their wysdome. |
| 12:21 | He poureth out confusyon vpon Princes, and comforteth them that haue bene oppressed. |
| 12:22 | Loke what lyeth hyd in darcknesse, he declareth it openly: and the very shadowe of death bringet he to lyght. |
| 12:23 | He bothe increaseth the people, and destroyeth them: He maketh them to multiplye and driueth them awaye. |
| 12:24 | He chaungeth the herte of the Princes and Kynges of the earth and disapoynteth them: so that they go wandringe out of the waye, |
| 12:25 | & grope in the darcke without light, stackeringe to and fro lyke droncken men. |
Matthew's Bible 1537
The Matthew Bible, also known as Matthew's Version, was first published in 1537 by John Rogers, under the pseudonym "Thomas Matthew". It combined the New Testament of William Tyndale, and as much of the Old Testament as he had been able to translate before being captured and put to death, with the translations of Myles Coverdale as to the balance of the Old Testament and the Apocrypha, except the Apocryphal Prayer of Manasses. It is thus a vital link in the main sequence of English Bible translations.