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the way. 25 They grope in the darke without light: 14
and he maketh the to stagger like a drunken man. 1 Man that is borne of woman, is of short
continuance, and full of trouble. 2 He shooteth
13 foorth as a flowre, and is cut downe: he vanisheth
also as a shadowe, and continueth not.
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1 Loe, mine eye hath seene all this: mine eare yet thou openest thine eyes vpon such one, and
hath heard, and vnderstande it. 2 I knowe also causest me to enter into iudgement with thee.
as much as you knowe: I am not inferiour vnto 4 Who can bring a cleane thing out of filthinesse?
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you. 3 But I will speake to the Almightie, and I there is not one. Are not his dayes determined?
desire to dispute with God. For in deede ye forge the nober of his moneths are with thee: thou
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lyes, and all you are physitions of no value. Oh, hast appointed his boundes, which he can not
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that you woulde holde your tongue, that it might passe. Turne from him that he may cease vntill
be imputed to you for wisedome! 6 Nowe heare his desired day, as an hyreling. 7 For there is
my disputation, and giue eare to the arguments hope of a tree, if it bee cut downe, that it will yet
of my lips. 7 Will ye speake wickedly for Gods sproute, and the branches thereof will not cease.
defence, and talke deceitfully for his cause? Will 8 Though the roote of it waxe olde in the earth,
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ye accept his person? or will ye contende for and the stocke thereof be dead in ye ground, Yet
God? Is it well that he shoulde seeke of you? will by the sent of water it will bud, and bring foorth
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you make a lye for him, as one lyeth for a man? boughes like a plant. 10 But man is sicke, and
10 He will surely reprooue you, if ye doe secretly dyeth, and man perisheth, and where is he? 11 As
accept any person. 11 Shall not his excellencie the waters passe from the sea, and as the flood
make you afraid? and his feare fall vpon you? decayeth and dryeth vp, 12 So man sleepeth and
12 Your memories may be compared vnto ashes, riseth not: for hee shall not wake againe, nor
and your bodyes to bodyes of clay. 13 Holde your be raised from his sleepe till the heauen be no
tongues in my presence, that I may speake, and more. 13 Oh that thou wouldest hide me in the
graue, and keepe me secret, vntill thy wrath were
let come vpon what will. 14 Wherefore doe I take past, and wouldest giue me terme, and remember
my flesh in my teeth, and put my soule in mine 14
hande? 15 Loe, though he slay me, yet will I trust me. If a man die, shall he liue againe? All the
in him, and I will reprooue my wayes in his sight. dayes of mine appointed time will I waite, till my
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16 He shalbe my saluation also: for the hypocrite changing shall come. Thou shalt call me, and
shall not come before him. 17 Heare diligently my I shall answere thee: thou louest the worke of
But nowe thou nombrest my
thine own hands.
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wordes, and marke my talke. 18 Beholde nowe: if steppes, and doest not delay my sinnes. 17 Mine
I prepare me to iudgement, I knowe that I shalbe iniquitie is sealed vp, as in a bagge, and thou
iustified. 19 Who is he, that will pleade with me? addest vnto my wickednesse. 18 And surely as
for if I nowe holde my tongue, I dye. 20 But doe the mountaine that falleth, commeth to nought,
not these two things vnto me: then will I not hide and the rocke that is remooued from his place:
my selfe from thee. 21 Withdrawe thine hande 19 As the water breaketh the stones, when thou
from me, and let not thy feare make me afraide. ouerflowest the things which growe in the dust
22 Then call thou, and I will answere: or let me of ye earth: so thou destroyest ye hope of man.
speake, and answere thou me. 23 Howe many 20 Thou preuailest alway against him, so that
are mine iniquities and sinnes? shewe me my he passeth away: he changeth his face when
rebellion, and my sinne. 24 Whereforehidest thou thou castest him away. 21 And he knoweth not
thy face, and takest me for thine enemie? 25 Wilt if his sonnes shall be honourable, neither shall
thou breake a leafe driuen to and from? and he vnderstand concerning them, whether they
wilt thou pursue the drie stubble? 26 For thou shalbe of lowe degree, 22 But while his flesh is
writest bitter things against me, and makest me vpon him, he shall be sorowfull, and while his
to possesse the iniquities of my youth. 27 Thou soule is in him, it shall mourne.
puttest my feete also in the stocks, and lookest
narrowly vnto all my pathes, and makest the 15
print thereof in ye heeles of my feet. 28 Such one 1 Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and
consumeth like a rotten thing, and as a garment saide, Shal a wise man speake words of ye winde,
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that is motheaten. and fill his bellie with the East winde? 3 Shall