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Rh that I may speake, what soeuer my minde shal prompt me. ∷ Why doe I teare my flesh with my teeth, & carie my soule in my handes? Although he shal kil me, I wil ∷ trust in him but yet I wil reproue my waies in his sight. And he shal be my sauiour: for no hypocrite shal come in his sight. Heare ye my word, and receiue the obscure sayings with your eares. If I shal be iudged, ∷ I know that I shal be found iust. What is he that wil be iudged with me? let him come: why am I consumed holding my peace? Two things only do not to me, and then shal I not be hid from thy face: Make thy hand far from me, and let not thy feare terrifie me. Cal me, and I wil answer thee: or els I wil speake, and doe thou answer me. How great iniquites and sinnes I haue, my wicked deedes and my offences ∷ shewe thou me. Why hidest thou thy face, and thinkest me thine enemy? Against the leafe, that is violently taken with the wind, thou shewest thy might, and persecutest drie stuble. For thou writest bitternes against me, and wilt consume me with the sinnes of my youth. Thou hast put my feete in the stockes, and hast obserued al my pathes, and hast considered the steppes of my feete. Who as rottenes am to be consumed, and as a garment, that is eaten of the moth.

C. XIIII.

''Againe Iob describeth the miseries of mans life. 3. Neuertheles Gods great prouidence towards him. 7. professeth his beleefe of the Resurrection.''

A borne of ∷ woman, liuing a short time, is replenished with many mseiries. Who as a flowre cometh forth and is destroyed, & fleeth as a shadow, & neuer abideth in the same state. And doest thou counte it a worthy thing to open thine eies vpon such an one, and to bring him with thee into iudgement? Who can make cleane him that is conceiued of vncleane seede? is it not thou which onlie art? The daies of man are short, & the number of his monethes is with thee, thou hast appointed his limittes ∷ which can not be passed. Depart a litle from him, that he may rest, vntil his day wished for, come, euen as the hyred man. A tree hath hope: if it be cut, it waxeth greene againe, and the boughes thereof spring. If his roote be old in the earth, and the truncke therof be dead in the dust. At the sent of water it shal spring, and bring forth leaues, as when it was first