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neither will he take the wicked by the hand, 21 Till then a post: they haue fled, and haue seene no
he haue filled thy mouth with laughter, and thy good thing. 26 They are passed as with the most
lippes with ioy. 22 They that hate thee, shall swift ships, and as the eagle that flyeth to the
be clothed with shame, and the dwelling of the pray. 27 If I say, I wil forget my complaynt, I will
wicked shall not remaine. cease from my wrath, and comfort mee, 28 Then
9 I am afrayd of all my sorowes, knowing that thou
wilt not iudge me innocent.
If I be wicked, why
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1 Then Iob answered, and sayd, I knowe verily labour I thus in vaine? 30 If I wash my selfe with
that it is so: for howe should man compared snowe water, and purge mine hands most cleane,
vnto God, be iustified? 3 If I would dispute with 31 Yet shalt thou plunge mee in the pit, and mine
him, hee could not answere him one thing of a owne clothes shall make me filthie. 32 For he is
thousand. 4 He is wise in heart, and mighty in not a man as I am, that I shoulde answere him,
strength: who hath bene fierce against him and if we come together to iudgement. 33 Neyther is
hath prospered? He remoueth the mountaines, there any vmpire that might lay his hand vpon
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and they feele not when he ouerthroweth them vs both. 34 Let him take his rod away from me,
in his wrath. 6 Hee remooueth the earth out of and let not his feare astonish me: 35 Then will I
her place, that the pillars thereof doe shake. He speake, and feare him not: but because I am not
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commandeth the sunne, and it riseth not: hee so, I holde me still.
closeth vp the starres, as vnder a signet. 8 Hee
himselfe alone spreadeth out the heauens, and 10
walketh vpon the height of the sea. He maketh
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the starres Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the 1 My soule is cut off though I liue: I wil leaue
climates of the South. 10 He doeth great things, my complaint vpon my selfe, and wil speake in
and vnsearcheable: yea, marueilous things with- the bitternesse of my soule. 2 I will say vnto
out nomber. 11 Lo, when he goeth by me, I see him God, Condemne mee not: shew me, wherefore
not: and when he passeth by, I perceiue him not. thou contendest with mee. 3 Thinkest thou it
good to oppresse me, and to cast off the labour
12 Behold, when he taketh a pray, who can make of thine handes, and to fauour the counsel of
him to restore it? who shall say vnto him, What the wicked? 4 Hast thou carnall eyes? or doest
doest thou? 13 God will not withdrawe his anger, thou see as man seeth? Are thy dayes as mans
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and the most mightie helpes doe stoupe vnder dayes? or thy yeres, as the time of man, That
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him. 14 Howe much lesse shall I answere him? thou inquirest of mine iniquitie, and searchest
or howe should I finde out my words with him? out my sinne? 7 Thou knowest that I can not
15 For though I were iust, yet could I not answere, do wickedly: for none can deliuer me out of
but I would make supplication to my Iudge. 16 If I thine hand. 8 Thine handes haue made me, and
cry, and he answere me, yet woulde I not beleeue, fashioned mee wholy rounde about, and wilt
that he heard my voyce. 17 For he destroyeth thou destroy me? 9 Remember, I pray thee,
mee with a tempest, and woundeth me without that thou hast made me as the clay, and wilt
cause. 18 He wil not suffer me to take my breath, thou bring me into dust againe? 10 Hast thou
but filleth me with bitternesse. 19 If we speake not powred me out as milke? and turned me
of strength, behold, he is strog: if we speake of to cruds like cheese? 11 Thou hast clothed me
iudgement, who shall bring me in to pleade? 20 If with skin and flesh, and ioyned me together with
I woulde iustifie my selfe, mine owne mouth shall bones and sinewes. 12 Thou hast giuen me life,
condemne mee: if I would be perfite, he shall and grace: and thy visitation hath preserued my
iudge me wicked. 21 Though I were perfite, yet spirit. 13 Though thou hast hid these things in
I knowe not my soule: therefore abhorre I my thine heart, yet I knowe that it is so with thee.
life. 22 This is one point: therefore I said, Hee 14 If I haue sinned, then thou wilt streightly looke
destroyeth the perfite and the wicked. 23 If the vnto me, and wilt not holde mee giltlesse of mine
scourge should suddenly slay, should God laugh iniquitie. 15 If I haue done wickedly, wo vnto me:
at the punishment of the innocent? 24 The earth if I haue done righteously, I will not lift vp mine
is giuen into the hand of ye wicked: he couereth head, being full of confusion, because I see mine
the faces of the iudges therof: if not, where is he? affliction. 16 But let it increase: hunt thou me as
or who is he? 25 My dayes haue bene more swift a lyon: returne and shew thy selfe marueilous