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1078 first planted. But when man shal be dead, and naked and consumed, where is he I pray? As if the waters should depart out of the sea, and a riuer made emptie should be dried vp. So man when he is a sleepe shal not rise agayne, til heauen perish, he shal not awake, nor rise vp out of his sleepe. Who wil grant me this, that in hel thou protect me, and hide me, til thy furie passe, and appoynt me a time, wherin thou wilt remember me? Shal man that is dead, thinkest thou, liue agayne? al the daies, in which I am now in warfare, I expect vntil my change do come. Thou shalt cal me, and I shal answer thee: to the worke of thy handes thou shalt reach thy right hand. Thou in dede hast numbred my steppes: but thou wilt spare my sinnes. Thou hast sealed my offences as it were in a bag, but hast cured mine iniquitie. A mountaine falling slideth downe, and a rock is remoued out of his place. Waters make stones holow, and with inundation the earth by litle and litle is consumed: and men therfore thou shalt destroy in like maner. Thou hast strengthened him a litle that he might passe away foreuer: thou shalt chāge his face, and shalt send him forth. Whether his children shal be noble, or vnnoble, he ∷ shal not vnderstand. But yet his flesh whiles he shal liue shal haue sorow, & his soule shal mourne vpon himself.

C XV.

''Eliphaz againe chargeth Iob to haue spoken presumptuously, & blasphemously. 14. auoucheth that no man is innocent nor iust. 20. describing the malediction of impious and hypochrites.''

V Eliphaz the Themanite answering, sayd: Wil a wise man answer as it were speaking into the wind, and fil his stomacke with burning? Thou ∷ reprouest him in wordes, that is not equal to thee, and speakest that which is not expedient for thee. As much as is in thee, thou hast euacuated feare, and hast taken away prayers before God. For thine iniquitie hath taught thy mouth, and thou doest imitate the tongue of blasphemers. Thine owne mouth shal condemne thee, and not I: and thy lippes shal answer thee. Wast thou the first man borne, and formed before the litle hilles? Hast thou heard Gods counsel, and shal his wisedome be inferiour to thee? What doest thou know, that we are ignorant of? what doest thou vnderstand that we know not? There are both