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of fine golde. 18 No mention shall be made of the vnrighteous man, and pluckt the praye out
coral, nor of the gabish: for wisedome is more of his teeth. 18 Then I sayde, I shall die in my
precious then pearles. 19 The Topaz of Ethiopia nest, and I shall multiplie my dayes as the sand.
shall not be equall vnto it, neither shall it be 19 For my roote is spread out by the water, and the
valued with the wedge of pure gold. 20 Whence dewe shall lye vpon my branche. 20 My glory shall
then commeth wisedome? and where is the place renue towarde me, and my bowe shall be restored
of vnderstanding, 21 Seeing it is hid from the in mine hand. 21 Vnto me men gaue eare, and
eyes of all the liuing, and is hid from the foules wayted, and helde their tongue at my counsell.
of the heauen? 22 Destruction and death say, 22 After my wordes they replied not, and my talke
We haue heard the fame thereof with our eares. dropped vpon them. 23 And they wayted for me,
23 But God vnderstandeth the way thereof, and he as for the raine, and they opened their mouth
knoweth the place thereof. 24 For he beholdeth as for the latter rayne. 24 If I laughed on them,
the endes of the world, and seeth all that is vnder they beleeued it not: neither did they cause the
heauen, 25 To make the weight of the windes, light of my countenance to fall. 25 I appoynted
and to weigh the waters by measure. 26 When out their way, and did sit as chiefe, and dwelt as
he made a decree for the rayne, and a way for a King in the army, and like him that comforteth
the lightening of the thunders, 27 Then did he the mourners.
see it, and counted it: he prepared it and also
considered it. 28 And vnto man he said, Behold, 30
the feare of the Lord is wisedome, and to depart 1 Bvt now they that are yonger then I, mocke
from euil is vnderstanding. me: yea, they whose fathers I haue refused to
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29 set with the dogges of my flockes. For whereto
shoulde the strength of their handes haue serued
1 So Iob proceeded and continued his parable, mee, seeing age perished in them? For pouertie
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saying, Oh that I were as in times past, when and famine they were solitary, fleeing into the
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God preserued me! 3 When his light shined wildernes, which is darke, desolate and waste.
vpon mine head: and when by his light I walked 4 They cut vp nettels by the bushes, and the
thorowe the darkenesse, As I was in the dayes of iuniper rootes was their meate. 5 They were
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my youth: when Gods prouidence was vpon my chased forth from among men: they shouted at
tabernacle: 5 When the almightie was yet with them, as at a theefe. 6 Therfore they dwelt in
me, and my children round about me. 6 When the clefts of riuers, in the holes of the earth and
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I washed my pathes with butter, and when the rockes. They roared among the bushes, and vn-
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rocke powred me out riuers of oyle: 7 When I der the thistles they gathered themselues. They
went out to the gate, euen to the iudgement seat, were the children of fooles and the children of
and when I caused them to prepare my seate in villaines, which were more vile then the earth.
the streete. 8 The yong men saw me, and hid 9 And now am I their song, and I am their talke.
themselues, and the aged arose, and stood vp. 10 They abhorre me, and flee farre from mee, and
9 The princes stayed talke, and layde their hand spare not to spit in my face. 11 Because that God
on their mouth. 10 The voyce of princes was hath loosed my corde and humbled mee, they
hidde, and their tongue cleaued to the roofe of haue loosed the bridle before me. 12 The youth
their mouth. 11 And when the eare heard me, it rise vp at my right hand: they haue pusht my
blessed me: and when the eye sawe me, it gaue feete, and haue trode on me as on the paths of
witnesse to me. 12 For I deliuered the poore that their destruction. 13 They haue destroyed my
cryed, and the fatherlesse, and him that had none paths: they tooke pleasure at my calamitie, they
to helpe him. 13 The blessing of him that was had none helpe. 14 They came as a great breach
ready to perish, came vpon me, and I caused the of waters, and vnder this calamitie they come
widowes heart to reioyce. 14 I put on iustice, and on heapes. 15 Feare is turned vpon mee: and
it couered me: my iudgement was as a robe, and a they pursue my soule as the winde, and mine
crowne. 15 I was the eyes to the blinde, and I was health passeth away as a cloude. 16 Therefore
the feete to the lame. 16 I was a father vnto the my soule is nowe powred out vpon me, and the
poore, and when I knewe not the cause, I sought dayes of affliction haue taken holde on me. 17 It
it out diligently. 17 I brake also the chawes of pearceth my bones in the night, and my sinewes