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1086 I know your cogitations, and vniust sentences agaynst me. For you say: Where is the house of the prince? and where are the tabernacles of the impious? Aske anie of the wayfaring men, and you shal vnderstand that he knoweth these self same thinges. Because the euil man is kept vnto the day of perdition, and he shal be led to the day of furie. Who shal reproue his way before him? and who shal repay him the thinges that he hath done? He shal be brought to the graues, and shal watch in the heade of the dead. He hath beene sweete to the grauel of ∷ Cocytus, & after him he shal drawe euerie man, and before him innumerable. How therfore doe ye comforth me in vayne, whereas your answer is shewed to be repugnant to the truth?

. XXII.

''Eliphaz contendeth that God is not pleased with a iust mans afflictions. 5. falsly imputeth enormious crimes to holie Iob, 12. and grosse errors. 21. wisheth him therfore to repent, that so he may prosper.''

Eliphaz the Themanite answering, sayd: Can man be compared with God, yea though he be of perfect knowlege. What doth it ∷ profite God if thou be iust? or what doest thou aduantage him if thy way be vnspotted. Shal he be afrayde to reproue thee, and come with thee into iudgement: And not for thy very great malice, and thine infinite iniquities? For thou hast taken away the pledge of thy brethren without cause, and the naked thou hast spoyled of clothes. Water to the wearie thou hast not geuen, and from the hungrie thou hast withdrawen bread. In the strength of thine arme thou didst possesse the earth, and being the mightiest thou didst obteyne it. Widowes thou hast sent away emptie, and the armes of pupiiles thou hast broken in peeces. Therfore art thou compassed with snares, and soden feare trubleth thee. And thoughtest thou that thou shouldest not see darkenes, and that thou shouldest not be oppressed with the violence of ouerflowing waters? Doest thou not thinke that God is higher then heauen, and is exalted aboue the toppe of the starres? And thou sayest: For what knoweth God? and he iudgeth as it were by a mist. The cloudes are his couert, ∷ neither doth he consider our thinges, and he walketh about the poles of heauen Doest thou couet to keepe the path of worldes, which wicked men haue troden? Who were