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1096 mouth. Which is ∷ most great iniquitie, and a denial against God the most high? If I haue beene glad of his fal, that hated me, & haue reioysed that euil had found him. For I haue not geuen my throte to sinne, that cursing I wished his soule. If the men of my tabernacle haue not sayd: Who wil giue of his flesh that we may be filled? The stranger taried not without, my doore was open to the wayfaring man. If as man I haue hid my sinne, and haue concealed my iniquitie in my bosome. If I haue bene afrayd at a verie great multitude, & the contempt of kinsmen hath terrified me: and I haue not rather held my peace, & not gone out of the doore. Who wil grant me an hearer, that the Omnipotent would heare my desire: and that himself that iudgeth would write a booke. That I may carie it on my shoulder, and put it about me as a crowne? At euerie steppe of mine I wil pronounce it, and as to the prince I wil offer it. If my Land cry against me, and with it the furrowes therof lament: If I haue eaten the fruites therof without money, and haue afflicted the soule of the tillers therof. For wheate let the bryar grow to me, and for barlie the thorne.

∷ The wordes of Iob are ended.

. XXXII.

''Eliu a young man being angrie that Iob persisted in his opinion, and that his three freindes could not conuince him, 8. taketh vpon him to confute Iob which they could not do.''

these three men omitted to answer Iob, for that he seemed iust to himself. And ∷ Eliu the sonne of Barachel a Buzite, of the kinred of Ram, was angrie and tooke indignation: and he was angrie against Iob, for that he sayd himself to be iust before God. Moreouer against his freindes he had indignation, for that they had not found a reasonable answer, but onlie had condemned Iob. Therfore Eliu expected Iob speaking, because they were his elders that spake. But when he saw that the three were not able to answer, he was wrath excedingly. And Eliu the sonne of Barachel a Buzite answering, sayd: I am yonger in time, and you more ancient, therfore casting downe my head, I was afrayd to shewe you my sentence. For I hoped that longer age would speake, and that a multitude of yeares would teach wisdom. But as I see, there is a Spirite in men, and the inspiration