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Rh inspiration of the Omnipotent geueth vnderstanding. They of many yeares are not the wise men, neither doe the ancientes vnderstand iudgement. Therfore wil I speake: Heare ye me, I also wil shew you my wisedom. For I haue expected your wordes, I haue heard your wisdom, as long as you contended in wordes. And as long as I thought you said somewhat, I considered: but as I see, ∷ here is none of you that can reproue Iob, and answer to his wordes. Lest perhaps you may say: We haue found wisedom, God hath reiected, him not man. He hath spoken nothing ∷ to me, and I wil not answer him according to your wordes. They were afrayd, and answered no more, & they haue taken away talke from themselues. Therfore because I haue expected, and they spake not: they stoode, & answered no more: I also wil answer my part, and wil shew my knowledge. For I am ful of wordes, and the spirit of my bellie streyneth me. Behold, my bellie is as new wine without a vent, which breaketh new vessels. I wil speake, and take breath a litle: I wil open my lippes, and wil answer. I wil not accept the person of a man, and I wil not make God equal to man. For I know not how long I shal continewe, and whether after a while my maker wil take me away.

. XXXIII.

''Eliu endeuoreth to proue by Iobs speach that he is vniust: 13. arguing that God (by afflicting him) hath alreadly so iudged. 23. but if by an Angels admonition he repent, al shal be remitted.''

therfore Iob my sayings, and harken to al my wordes. Behold I haue opened my mouth, let my tongue speake within my iawes. My wordes are of my simple hart, and my lippes shal speake a pure sentence. The Spirit of God made me, and the breath of the Omnipotent gaue me life. If thou canst, answer me, and stand against my face. Behold God hath made me also euen as thee, and of the same clay I also was formed. But yet let not my ∷ miracle terrifie thee, and let not my eloquence be burdenous to thee. Thou therfore hast sayd in my eares, and I haue heard the voice of thy wordes: I am cleane, and without sinne: vnspotted, and there is no iniquitie in me. Because he hath found quarrels in me, therfore hath he thought me his enemy He hath put my feete in the stockes, he hath obserued al my waies