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 V Eliphaz the Themanite answering, sayd: If we shal begin to speake to thee, perhaps thou wilt take it greuously, but the word conceiued who can hold? Behold thou hast taught manie, & wearie handes thou hast strengthned: Them that wauered thy wordes haue confirmed, and trembling knees thou hast strengthened: But now a plague is come vpon thee, and thou hast faynted: hath touched thee, and art trubled. Where is thy feare, thy strength, thy patience, and the perfection of thy wayes? Remember I besech thee, who euer being innocent hath ∷ perished? or when haue the iust bene destroyed? Yea rather I haue sene them, that worke iniquitie, and sow sorrowes, & reape them, to haue perished by the blast of God, and with the spirit of his wrath to haue bene consumed. The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the lionesse, & the teeth of the whelpes of lions are bruised: The tigre hath perished, because he had no praye, and the lions whelpes are destroyed: Moreouer ∷ to me there was spoken a secret word, and as it were by stealth hath mine eare receiued the vaines of the whispering therof. In the horrour of a vision by night, when deepe sleepe is wont to hold men, feare held me, and trembling, and al my bones were made sore afrayd: And when the spirit passed in my presence, the heares of my flesh stood vpright. There stood one, whose countenance I knew not, an image before mine eies, and I heard the voyce as it were of a gentle winde. What, ∷ shal man be iustified in comparison of God, or shal a man be more pure then his maker? Behold they that serue him, are not stable, and in his Angels he found wickednes: How much more they that inhabite houses of clay, which haue an earthly foundation, shal be consumed as it were of the moth? From morning vntil euening they shal be cut downe: and because none vnderstandeth, they shal perish foreuer. And they that shal be least, shal be taken away from them: they shal die, and not in wisedom.

C. V.

''Eliphaz prosecuteth his discourse to conuince Iob of great sinnes, because he is so vehemently afflicted. 17. exhorteth him therfore to acknowledge his sinnes, so al thinges shal succede prosperously.''

A therfore ∷ if there be that wil answer thee, & ″ turne to some of the sainctes. Anger in deede killeth the foolish