Turn into your own selves, I pray you: be indifferent judges, and consider my guiltlessness:

If thou wouldest live a pure and godly life; should he not wake up unto thee immediately, and give thee the beauty of righteousness again?

"Enquire, I pray thee, of them that have been before thee; and search diligently among thy forefathers.

As for the world, he giveth it over into the power of the wicked; and he shall cover the faces of the judges thereof. Is it not so? Where is he - or who is he - that can show the contrary?

They are passed away, as the ships that be good under sail, and as the Eagle that hasteth to the prey.

Wherefore do I bear my flesh in my teeth, and put my soul in my hands?

"As for you, turn you, and get you hence, I pray you - seeing I cannot see one wise man among you.

When I call upon my servant, he giveth me no answer: no though I pray him with my mouth.

"His children shall be fain to agree with the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.

And why? He hath oppressed the poor, and not helped them: houses hath he spoiled, and not builded them.

Though he had plenteousness of everything, yet was he poor, and therefore he is but a wretch on every side.

They bear with them tabrets and harps, and have instruments of music at their pleasure.

Inasmuch then as God hath the highest power of all, who can teach him any knowledge?

Thou hast sent widows away empty and oppressed the poor fatherless.

Will he plead against me with his great power and strength? No, but he will make me the stronger.

He rewardeth me into my bosom, and many other things more doth he, as he may by his power.

that thrust the poor out of the way, and oppress the simple of the world together.

They are the cause that so many men are naked and bare, having no clothes to cover them and keep them from cold;

They spoil the sucking fatherless children, and put the poor in prison,

The poor are fain to labour in their oil mills, yea and to tread in their wine presses, and yet to suffer thirst.

Timely in the morning do they arise, to murder the simple and poor, and in the night they go a stealing.

For they maintain the barren, and make them that they cannot bear, and unto widows they do no good.

They pluck down the mighty with their power, and when they themselves are gotten up, they are never without fear, as long as they live.

"Power and fear is with him above, that maketh peace, sitting in his highness,

He filleth the sea with his power, and through his wisdom smiteth he the strength thereof.

This is now a short sum of his doings. But who is able sufficiently to rehearse his works? Who can perceive and understand the thunder of his power?"

"As truly as God liveth, which hath taken away my power from me; and the Almighty, that hath vexed my mind;

It rusheth in upon him, and spareth him not, he may not escape from the power thereof.

"For I delivered the poor when he cried, and the fatherless that wanted help.

I was a father unto the poor, and when I knew not their cause, I sought it out diligently.

The power and strength of their hands might do me no good, and as for their age, it is spent and past away without any profit.

With all their power have they changed my garment, and girded me therewith, as it were with a coat.

Did not I weep in the time of trouble? Had not my soul compassion upon the poor?

"When the poor desireth anything of me, have I denied it them? Have I caused the widow stand waiting for me in vain?

Have I seen any man perish through nakedness and want of clothing? Or any poor man for lack of raiment,

For I have ever feared the vengeance and punishment of God, and knew very well that I was not able to bear his burden.

My heart shall order my words aright, and my lips shall talk of pure wisdom.

'Ungodly men are ye.' He hath none respect unto the persons of the lordly, and regardeth not the rich more than the poor. For they be all the work of his hands.

Insomuch that they have caused the voice of the poor to come unto him, and now he heareth the complaint of such as are in necessity.

"Behold, God casteth not away the mighty, for he himself is mighty in power and wisdom.

As for the ungodly, he preserveth them not, but helpeth the poor to their right.

"The poor delivereth he out of his affliction, and comforteth such as be in necessity and trouble.

Behold, God is of a mighty high power: Where is there such a guide and lawgiver as he?

together for to rain, so that they pour down and drop upon men.

The clouds do their labour in getting moistness, the clouds pour down the rain.

It is not we that can find out the Almighty: for in power, equity, and righteousness, he is higher than can be expressed.

Moreover, canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that they may pour down a great rain upon thee?

Huntest thou the prey from the lion, or feedest thou his whelps

From thence may he behold his pray, and look far about with his eyes.

Then arm thyself with thine own power! Up, deck thee in thy jolly array,

pour out thy indignation of thy wrath; see that thou cast down all the proud,

lo, how strong he is in his loins, and what power he hath in the navel of his body.

Canst thou put a ring in the nose of him, or bore his jaw through with an awl?

I will not keep secret his great strength, his power, nor his comely proportion.

Upon earth is there no power like unto his, for he is so made that he feareth not.

"I know that thou hast power over all things, and that there is no thought hid unto thee.

Therefore take seven oxen and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, offer up also for yourselves a burnt offering: and let my servant Job pray for you. Him will I accept, and not deal with you after your foolishness: in that ye have not spoken the thing which is right, like as my servant Job hath done."

And why? For when he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them, and forgetteth not the complaint of the poor.

For the poor shall not always be forgotten; the patient abiding of the meek shall not perish forever.

While the ungodly hath the overhand, the poor must suffer persecution; let them be taken in the crafty wiliness that they have imagined!

He sitteth lurking in the thievish corners of the streets, and privily in his lurking dens doth he murder the innocent; his eyes are set against the poor.

For he lieth waiting secretly; even as a lion lurketh he in his den, that he may ravish the poor. He doth ravish the poor when he getteth him into his net.

He falleth down, and humbleth himself, that the congregation of the poor may fall into the hands of his captains.

Arise, O LORD God, and lift up thine hand; forget not the poor.

Surely thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest ungodliness and wrong, that thou mayest take the matter into thy hand. The poor committeth himself unto thee, for thou art the helper of the friendless.

Break thou the power of the ungodly and malicious; search out the wickedness which he hath done, that he may perish.

LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the poor; thou preparest their heart, and thine ear hearkeneth thereto,

to help the fatherless and the poor unto their right, that the man of the earth be no more exalted against them.

The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD's seat is in heaven. His eyes consider the poor, and his eyelids try the children of men.

"Now, for the comfortless troubles' sake of the needy, and because of the deep sighing of the poor, I will arise," saith the LORD, "and will help them, and set them at rest."

The words of the LORD are pure words: even as the silver, which from the earth is tried, and purified seven times in the fire.

As for you, ye have made a mock at the counsel of the poor, because he putteth his trust in the LORD.

like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a lion's whelp, lurking in secret places.

I was also uncorrupt before him, and eschewed my own wickedness. {TYNDALE: But was pure unto him ward, and kept myself from wickedness.}

With the clean thou shalt be clean, and with the froward thou shalt be froward. {TYNDALE: With the pure thou shalt be pure, and with the froward thou shalt be froward also.}

The statutes of the LORD are right, and rejoice the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, and giveth light unto the eyes.

For thou shalt prevent him with the blessings of goodness, and shalt set a crown of pure gold upon his head.

Be thou exalted, LORD, in thine own strength; so will we sing and praise thy power.

Deliver my soul from the sword, my darling from the power of the dog.

For he hath not despised nor abhorred the low estate of the poor: he hath not hid his face from him, but when he called unto him, he heard him.

The poor shall eat, and be satisfied: they that seek after the LORD shall praise him. Your heart shall live for ever.

Even he that hath clean hands, and a pure heart, and that hath not lift up his mind unto vanity, nor sworn to deceive his neighbour.

Consider mine enemies, how many they are; and they bear a tyrannous hate against me.

Lo, the poor crieth, and the LORD heareth him, yea, and saveth him out of all his troubles.

All my bones shall say, "LORD, who is like unto thee, who deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him? Yea, the poor, and him that is in misery, from him that spoileth him?"

The ungodly have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the simple and poor, and to slay such as are of a right conversation.

I myself have seen the ungodly in great power, and flourishing like a green bay-tree.

For my wickednesses are gone over my head, and are like a sore burden, too heavy for me to bear.

As for me, I am poor, and in misery, but the LORD careth for me. Thou art my helper and redeemer; make no long tarrying, O my God.

{To the Chanter, a Psalm of David} Blessed is he, that considereth the poor; the LORD shall deliver him in the time of trouble.

Now when I think thereupon, I pour out my heart by myself; for I went with the multitude, and brought them forth into the house of God, in the voice of praise and thanksgiving, among such as keep holy-day.

She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework; the virgins that be her fellows shall bear her company, and shall be brought unto thee.

high and low, rich and poor, one with another.

But God shall deliver my soul from the power of hell, when he receiveth me. Selah.

If it were mine enemy that reviled me, I could bear it: or if one that ought me evil will did threaten me, I would hide myself from him.

Slay them not, lest my people forget it: but scatter them abroad with thy power, and put them down, O LORD our defense.

As for me, I will sing of thy power, and praise thy mercy betimes in the morning: for thou hast been my defense and refuge in the day of my trouble.

O put your trust in him always, ye people; pour out your hearts before him, for God is our hope. Selah.

God spoke once, and twice I have also heard the same, that power belongeth unto God,

Thus do I look for thee in thy Sanctuary, that I might behold thy power and glory.