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Rh were taken away before their time, and a floud hath ouerthrowen their foundation: Who sayd to God: Depart from vs: and as though the Omnipotent could do nothing, they estemed him: Whereas he had filled their houses with good things, whose sentence be far from me. The iust shal see, and shal reioyse, and the innocent man shal skorne them. Is not their exaltation cut downe, and hath not fire deuoured the remnantes of them? Agree thou therfore to him, and haue peace: and by these thinges thou shalt haue the best fruites. Receiue the law of his mouth, and put his wordes in thy hart. If thou wilt returne to the Omnipotent, thou shalt be builded vp, and shalt make iniquitie far from thy tabernacle. He shal geue for earth flint, and for flint torrentes of gold. And the Omnipotent shal be agaynst thine enemies, & siluer shal be heaped together vnto thee. Then shalt thou abound in delightes vpon the Omnipoten, and shalt lift vp thy face to God. Thou shalt aske him, and he wil heare thee, and thou shal pay thy vowes. Thou shalt decree a thing, and it shal come to thee, and light shal shine in thy waies For who wil be humbled, shal be in glorie: and he that wil bow downe his eies, he shal be saued. The innocent shal be saued, but he shal be saued in the cleannesse of his handes.

. XXIII.

''Iob expecteth helpe and sentence of God, 6. with iust feare, yet with good conscience maintaineth his owne innocencie.''

Iob answering, sayd: ∷ Now also my talke is in bitternesse, and the hand of my plague is aggrauated vpon my mourning. Who wil grant me that I may know and find him, and come euen to ∷ his throne? I wil set iudgement before him, and wil fil my mouth with accusations. That I may know the wordes, that he wil answer me, and vnderstand what he wil speake to me. I wil not that he contend with me with much strength, nor that he oppresse me with the weight of his greatnes. Let him propose equitie against me, and my iudgement shal come to victorie. If I shal goe to the East, he appeareth not: if to the West, I shal not vnderstand him. If to the left hand; what shal I doe? I shal not apprehend him: if I turne my self to the right hand, I shal not see him. But he knoweth my way, & hath proued me as