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Rh Omnipotent. If his children be multiplied, they shal be in the sword, & nephewes shal not be filled with bread. They that shal be least of him, shal be buried in death, and his widowes shal not weepe. If he shal heape together siluer as earth, and as clay shal prepare garmentes: He shal prepare in deede, but the iust man shal be clothed with them: and the innocent shal diuide the siluer. He hath built his house as a moth, and as a keeper hath he made a bowre. The rich man ∷ when he shal sleepe shal take away nothing with him: he shal oppen his eies, & finde nothing. Pouertie as water shal apprehend him, in the night a tempest shal oppresse him. The burning wind shal take him vp, and cary him away, and as a whirlewinde shal pul him violently out of his place. And he shal cast vpon him, and shal not spare: out of his hand fleing he shal flee. He shal claspe his handes vpon him, and shal hisse vpon him, beholding his place.

. XXVIII.

''The maruelous workes of God, the author of nature, shew his powre and wisdome, 12. and that true riches consist not in temporal creatures, but in wisdome, 28. and feare of God.''

hath ∷ beginnings of her vaines, and gold hath a place, where in it is molten. Yron is taken out of the earth, and stone resolued with heate, is turned into brasse. He hath set a time for darkenesse, and the end of al thinges he considereth, the stone also of darkenesse, and the shadow of death. The ∷ torrent diuideth from the pilgrime people, them whom the foote of the needie man hath forgotten, and to whom there is no way. The land, out of which bread grew in his place, is destroyed with fire. The place of the sapphire the stones thereof, and the cloddes of it gold. The bird hath not knowen the path, neither hath the eie of the vulter beheld it. The children of merchantes haue not troden it, neither hath the lionesse passed by it. He hath stretched forth his hand to the flint, he hath ouerthrowen mountaines from the rootes. In the rockes he hath cut out riuers, and his eie hath seene euerie pretious thing. The depthes also of riuers he hath searched, & hid things he hath brought forth to light: But where is wisdome to be found, and what is the place of vnderstanding? Man knoweth not the price therof, ∷ neither is it found in the land of them that