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vpon me. 17 Thou renuest thy plagues against shall make sute vnto thee. 20 But the eyes of the
me, and thou increasest thy wrath against me: wicked shall faile, and their refuge shall perish,
changes and armies of sorowes are against me. and their hope shalbe sorow of minde.
18 Wherfore then hast thou brought me out of the
wombe? Oh that I had perished, and that none 12
eye had seene me! 19 And that I were as I had not 1 Then Iob answered, and sayde, 2 In deede
bene, but brought from the wombe to the graue! because that ye are the people onely, wisedome
20 Are not my dayes fewe? let him cease, and must dye with you. 3 But I haue vnderstanding
leaue off from me, that I may take a litle comfort, aswel as you, and am not inferior vnto you: yea,
21 Before I goe and shall not returne, euen to the who knoweth not such things? 4 I am as one
land of darkenesse and shadow of death: 22 Into mocked of his neighbour, who calleth vpon God,
a land, I say, darke as darknes it selfe, and into and he heareth him: the iust and the vpright is
the shadow of death, where is none order, but the laughed to scorne. Hee that is readie to fall, is as
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light is there as darkenesse.
alampedespisedintheopinionoftheriche. The
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11 tabernacles of robbers doe prosper, and they are
in safetie, that prouoke God, whome God hath
1 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and enriched with his hand. 7 Aske now the beasts,
sayde, Should not the multitude of wordes be and they shall teach thee, and the foules of the
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answered? or should a great talker be iustified? heauen, and they shall tell thee: 8 Or speake to
3 Should men holde their peace at thy lyes? and the earth, and it shall shewe thee: or the fishes of
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when thou mockest others, shall none make thee the sea, and they shall declare vnto thee. Who
ashamed? 4 For thou hast sayde, My doctrine is is ignorant of all these, but that the hande of
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pure, and I am cleane in thine eyes. But, oh that the Lord hath made these? 10 In whose hande
God would speake and open his lippes against is the soule of euery liuing thing, and the breath
thee! 6 That he might shewe thee the secretes of all mankinde. 11 Doeth not the eares discerne
of wisedome, howe thou hast deserued double, the words? and the mouth taste meate for it
according to right: know therefore that God selfe? 12 Among the ancient is wisedome, and
hath forgotten thee for thine iniquitie. 7 Canst in the length of dayes is vnderstanding. 13 With
thou by searching finde out God? canst thou him is wisedome and strength: he hath counsell
finde out ye Almighty to his perfection? 8 The and vnderstanding. 14 Beholde, he will breake
heauensarehie, whatcanstthoudoe? itisdeeper downe, and it can not be built: he shutteth a
Beholde,
man vp, and he can not be loosed.
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then the hell, how canst thou know it? 9 The
measure thereof is longer then the earth, and he withholdeth the waters, and they drie vp:
it is broader then the sea. 10 If hee cut off and but when he sendeth them out, they destroy the
shut vp, or gather together, who can turne him earth. 16 With him is strength and wisedome:
backe? 11 For hee knoweth vaine men, and seeth hee that is deceiued, and that deceiueth, are his.
iniquitie, and him that vnderstandeth nothing. 17 He causeth the counsellers to goe as spoyled,
12 Yet vaine man would be wise, though man and maketh the iudges fooles. 18 He looseth the
new borne is like a wilde asse colte. 13 If thou collar of Kings, and girdeth their loynes with a
prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands girdle. 19 He leadeth away the princes as a pray,
toward him: 14 If iniquitie be in thine hand, put and ouerthroweth the mightie. 20 He taketh away
it farre away, and let no wickednesse dwell in the speach from the faithfull counsellers, and
thy Tabernacle. 15 The truely shalt thou lift vp taketh away the iudgement of the ancient. 21 He
thy face without spot, and shalt be stable, and powreth contempt vpon princes, and maketh the
shalt not feare. 16 But thou shalt forget thy strength of the mightie weake. 22 He discouereth
miserie, and remember it as waters that are past. the deepe places from their darkenesse, and
17 Thine age also shall appeare more cleare then bringeth foorth the shadowe of death to light.
the noone day: thou shalt shine and bee as the 23 He increaseth the people, and destroyeth them:
morning. 18 And thou shalt bee bolde, because he inlargeth the nations, and bringeth them in
there is hope: and thou shalt digge pittes, and againe. 24 He taketh away the heartes of the that
shalt lye downe safely. 19 For when thou takest are the chiefe ouer the people of the earth, and
thy rest, none shall make thee afraide: yea, many maketh them to wander in the wildernes out of