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Rh troubled me. For I haue not perished because of the imminent darknesse, neither hath the mist couered my face.

CHAP. XXIIII.

IMES are not hid from the Omnipotent: but they that know him, know not his daies. Some haue transferred bounds, spoiled flockes, & fed them. They haue driuen away the asse of pupils, and haue taken away the widowes oxe for a pledge. They haue subuerted the way of the poore, and haue oppressed together the meek of the earth. Others as wilde asses in the desert goe forth to their worke: watching to the prey, doe prepare bread for their children. They reape the field that is not theirs, and gather the grapes of his vineyard, whom by violence they haue oppressed. They send men away naked taking away their cloths, which haue no couering in the cold. Whom the showers of the mountaynes doe wash, and not hauing a couert, they embrace stones. They did violence spoyling the pupils, & the common poore people they spoyled. From the naked & them that goe without clothing, and the hungrie they haue taken away the eares of corne. They haue rested the noonetide among their heaps, which hauing troden the wine presses are a thirst. Out of the cities they haue made men to mourne, and the soule of the wounded hath cryed, & God doth not suffer it to passe vnreuenged: They haue been rebellious to the light, they haue not knowen his wayes, neither did they returne by his pathes. At the verie break of day the murderer ryseth, he killeth the needie, and the poore man: but by night he wil be as a theefe. The eie of the aduouterer obserueth darknesse, saying: Eie shal not see me: and he wil couer his face. He diggeth through houses in the darke, as in the day they had appointed with themselues, and they haue not knowen the light. If sodainly the morning shal appeare, they thinke it the shadow of death: and they walke so in darknesse as it were in light. He is light aboue the face of the water: cursed be his portion in the earth, neither walke he by the way of the vineyards. Let him passe from snow waters to exceeding heate, and his sinne euen vnto hel. Let mercie forget him: wormes his sweetnes: be he not in remembrance, but be he broken in pieces as an vnfruitful tree. For he hath fed the barren, and her that bareth not, and to the widow he hath not done good. He hath pulled downe the strong in his strength and when he shal stand, he wil not credit his life. God hath giuen Rh