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1074 thy visitation hath kept my spirit. Although thou conceale these thinges in thy hart, yet I know that thou remembrest al thinges. If I haue sinned and thou hast spared me for an houre: why doest thou not suffer me to be cleane from mine iniquitie? And if I shal be impious, woe is to me: and if iust, I shal not lift vp my head, filled with affliction and miserie. And for pride as a lionesse thou wilt take me, and returning thou doest meruelously torment me. Thou renewest thy witnesses agaynst me, and multipliest thy wrath toward me, and paynes doe warre vpon me. Why didst thou bring me forth out of the matrice? Who would God, I had beene consumed that eye might not see me. I had beene as if I were not, caried from the wombe to the graue. Shal not the fewnes of my daies be ended shortly? suffer me ∷ therfore, that I may a litle lament my sorow: Before I goe, and returne not, vnto the darke land, that is couered with the mist of death: A land of miserie and darkenesse, where is the shadow of death, and no order, but euerlasting horrour inhabiteth.

C. XI.

Sophar imputeth Iobs discourse, about the cause of his so great afflictions, to insolencie of mind, and loquasitie of tongue, perswading him to acknowlege greuous sinnes, that so he may haue the reward of a iust man.

U Sophar the Naamathite answering, said: Why, shal he that speaketh manie thinges, not heare also? or ∷ shal a man ful of wordes be iustified? To thee onlie shal men hold their peace? and when thou hast mocked others, shalt thou be confuted of none? For thou hast sayd: My word is pure, and I am cleane in thy sight. And I would wish that God would speake with thee, and would open his lippes to thee, That he might shew thee the secretes of wisdom, and that his law is manifold, and thou mightest vnderstand that thou art exacted much lesser thinges of him, ∷ then thy iniquitie deserueth. Peraduenture thou wilt comprehend the steppes of God, and wil find out the Omnipotent perfectly? He is higher then heauen, and what wilt thou doe: deeper then hel, and how wilt thou know? The measure of him is longer then the earth, and broder then the sea. If he shal ouerthrow al things, or shal strayten them into one, who shal say against him? For he knoweth the vanitie of men, & seing ini- quitie