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Rh of innocentes. This earth is geuen into the handes of the impious, he couereth the face of the iudges therof: and if it be not he, who is it then? My dayes haue bene swifter then a poste: they haue fled and haue not sene good. They haue passed by as shippes carying fruites, as an eagle flying to meate. When I shal say: I wil not speake so, I change my face, and am tormented with sorow. I ∷ feared al my workes, knowing that thou didst not spare the offender. But if so also I am impious, why haue I laboured in vayne? If I be washed as it were with snow waters, and my handes shal shine as most cleane: Yet shal thou dippe me in filth, and my garmentes shal abhorre me. For neither I wil answer a man that is like my self: nor that may be heard with me equally in iudgement. There is none that may be able to reproue both, and to put his hand betwen both. Let him take his rod from me, and let not his dread terrifie me. I wil speake, and wil not feare him: for I can not answer fearing.

C. X.

''Iob scarse able to speake yet sheweth that there is no iniustice nor ignorance in God, neither is his sinne the cause of so great afflictions. 9. Acknowledgeth Gods loue and benefites towards himself. 15. and dreadeth his strict iudgement.''

Y soule is wearie of my life, I wil let my speach passe agaynst my self. I wil speake in the bitternes of my soule. I wil say to God: Condemne me not: tel me why thou iudgest me so. Doth it seeme good to thee, if thou ∷ calumniate me, and oppresse me the worke of thy handes, and helpe the counsel of the impious? Hast thou eies of flesh: or as a man seeth, shalt thou also see? Are thy daies as the daies of man, and are thy yeares as the times of men: That thou sekest my iniquitie, and searchest my sinne? And thou mayst knowe that I haue done no impious thing, whereas there is no man that can deliuer out of thy hand. ∷ Thy handes haue made me, and framed me wholly round about, and dost thou so sodenlie cast me downe headlong? Remember I besech thee that as clay thou madest me, and into dust thou wilt bring me agayne. Hast thou not as milke milked me, and curded me as cheese? With skinne and flesh thou hast clothed me: with bones & sinowes thou hast compacted me. Life and mercie thou hast geuen to me, and thy