1The firmament of highness is the fairness thereof [or The firmament of the height is the fairness of him]; the fairness of heaven in the sight of glory.

2The sun in beholding, telling in going out, is a wonderful vessel, the work of high God. [The sun in the sight, showing out in the issue, a marvellous vessel, the work of the High.]

3In the time of midday it burneth the earth; and who shall be able to suffer in the sight of his heat?

4Keeping a furnace in the works of heat; the sun burning hills in three manners, sending out beams of fire [or blasting out fiery beams], and shining again with his beams, blind-eth eyes.

5The Lord is great [or Great is the Lord], that made it; and in the words of him it hasted its journey.

6And the moon in all men in his time is showing of time, and a sign of the world. [And the moon in all things in his time showing of time, and token of the spiritual world.]

7A sign of the feast [or holy] day is taken of the moon; the light which is made little in the end.

8The month is increasing [or wax-ing] by the name thereof, wonderfully into the ending. A vessel of castles [or tents] in high things, shining glorious-ly in the firmament of heaven.

9The fairness of heaven is the glory of stars; the Lord on high lighteneth the world.

10In the words of the Holy, those shall stand at the doom; and those shall not fail in their wakings [or they shall not fail in their watches].

11See thou the rainbow, and bless thou him that made it; it is full fair in his shining.

12It went about heaven in the com-pass [or the circuit] of his glory; the hands of high God[or of the High] opened it.

13By his commandment he hasted the snow; and he hasteth to send out the lightnings of his doom.

14Therefore [the] treasures were opened, and [the] clouds fled out as bees [or flew away as birds].

15In his greatness he setted [or put the] clouds; and stones of hail were broken.

16[The] Hills shall be moved in his sight; and the south wind shall blow in his will.

17The voice of his thunder shall beat [or beateth] the earth; the tempest of the north, and the gathering together of wind. And as a bird putting down to sit sprinkleth snow, and the coming down of that snow is as a locust drowning down.

18The eye shall wonder [or marvel] on the fairness of whiteness thereof; and an heart dreadeth [or quaketh] on the rain thereof.

19He shall shed [or pour] out frost as salt [up] on the earth; and while the wind bloweth, it shall be made as cops or tops of a briar [or bramble bush].

20The cold northern wind blew, and crystal of water froze together [or the crystal freezed from the water]; it resteth on all the gathering together of waters, and it clotheth itself with waters, as with an habergeon.

21And it shall devour hills, and it shall burn the desert; and it shall quench [the] green thing as fire.

22The medicine of all things is in the hasting [or hieing] of a cloud; a dew, meeting the heat coming of burning, shall make it low.

23The wind was still in the word of God; by his thought he made peaceable the depth of waters; and the Lord Jesus ⁸, that is, God, which is Saviour of all men, planted it. [In his word the wind held his peace; by his thinking he shall peace the sea; and the Lord Jesus planted it.]

24They that sail in the sea, tell out the perils thereof; and we hearing with our ears, shall wonder.

25There be full clear works, and wonderful [or marvellous], diverse kinds of beasts, and of all little beasts, and the creatures of wonderful fishes.

26The end of way is confirmed for it; and all things be made in the word of him. [For him is confirmed the end of the way; and in the word of him all things be made together.]

27We say many things, and we fail in words; forsooth he is the [full] ending of words.

28To what thing shall we be mighty, that have glory in all things? for he is all-mighty above [or over] all his works.

29The Lord is fearedful, and full great; and his power is wonderful [or marvellous].

30Glorify ye the Lord as much as ever ye may, yet he shall be mightier; and his great doing is wonderful [or marvellous]. Ye blessing the Lord, enhance him as much as ye may; for he is more than all praising. Ye enhancing him shall be filled with virtue; travail ye not to know God perfectly in this life, for ye shall not take it perfectly, that is, for it is unpossible, [or ye shall not full come].

31Who saw him, and shall tell it out? and who shall magnify him, as he is from the beginning?

32Many things greater than these be hid from us; for we have seen few things of his works.

33Forsooth the Lord made all things; and he gave wisdom to men doing faithfully [or piously].