Verse 16

Oft tymes a thinge doth florish, and men thynke that it maye abyde the Sonneshyne: it shuteth forth the braunches in his garden,

Referenced Verses

• Ps 80:11 : 11 She stretched out hir brauches vnto the see, & hir bowes vnto the water:
• Jer 11:16 : 16 The LORDE called the a grene olyue tre, a fayre one, a frutefull one, a goodly one: but now that there is a contrary reporte off the abrode, he will burne the vp, ad destroye thy braunches.
• Job 5:3 : 3 I haue sene my self, when the foolish was depe roted, that his bewty was sodely destroyed:
• Job 21:7-9 : 7 Wherfore do wicked me lyue in health and prosperite, come to their olde age, & increase in riches? 8 Their childers children lyue in their sight, & their generacion before their eyes. 9 Their houses are safe from all feare, for the rodd of God doth not smyte the. 10 Their bullocke gendreth, and that not out of tyme: their cow calueth, and is not vnfrutefull. 11 They sende forth their children by flockes, and their sonnes lede the daunce. 12 They beare with them tabrettes and harpes, and haue instrumentes of musick at their pleasure. 13 They spende their dayes in welthynesse: but sodenly they go downe to hell. 14 They saye vnto God: go from vs, we desyre not the knowlege of thy wayes. 15 What maner of felowe is the Allmightie, that we shulde serue him? What profit shulde we haue, to submitte oure selues vnto him?
• Ps 37:35-36 : 35 Hope thou in the LORDE, & kepe his waye: & he shal so promote the, that thou shalt haue the lode by enheritauce, & se, when the vngodly shall perishe. 36 I myself haue sene the vngodly in greate power, & florishinge like a grene baye tre:
• Ps 73:3-9 : 3 And why. I was greued at ye wicked, to se the vngodly in soch prosperite. 4 For they are in no parell of death, but stonde fast like a palace. 5 They come in no misfortune like other folke, nether are they plaged like other men. 6 And this is the cause that they be so puft vp in pryde, & ouerwhelmed with cruelte and vnrigthuousnesse. 7 Their eyes swell for fatnesse, they do euen what they lyst. 8 Corrupte are they, and speake blasphemies maliciously, proude and presumptuous are their wordes. 9 They stretch forth their mouth vnto the heauen, & their tonge goeth thorow the worlde. 10 Therfore fall the people vnto them, and there out sucke they no small auauntage. 11 Tush (saye they) how shulde God perceaue it? is there knowlege in the most hyest? 12 Lo, these are the vngodly, these prospere in the worlde, these haue riches in possession.