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Rh sounding stormes. Then he saw it, and declared, and prepared, and searched it. And he sayd to man: Behold the feare of our Lord, that is wisedom: and to depart from euil, vnderstanding.

CHAP. XXIX.

OB also added, taking his parable, and sayd: Who wil grant me, that I may be according to the former months, according to the daies in which God kept me? When his lampe shined ouer my head, & I walked by his light in darknes? As I was in the daies of my youth, when God was secretly in my tabernacle? When the Omnipotent was with me: and my seruants round about me? When I washed my feet with butter, and the rocke powred me riuers of oile? When I went forth to the gate of the citie, and in the street they prepared me a chaire? Yong men saw me, and hid themselues: and old men rising vp stood. The Princes ceased to speake, and did put the finger vpon their mouth. Dukes held in their voice, and their tongue cleaued to their throte. The eare hearing counted me blessed, and the eie seeing gaue testimonie to me: For that I had deliuered the poore man crying out, and the pupil, that had no helper. The blessing of him that was readie to perish came vpon me, and I comforted the hart of the widow. I was clothed with iustice: and I reuested me with my iudgement, as with a garment and crowne. I was an eie to the blind, and a foote to the lame. I was the father of the poore: and the cause which I knew not, I searched most diligently. I brake the iawes of the wicked man, and out of his teeth I tooke away the prey. And I said: I wil die in my litle nest, and as a palmetree wil multiplie daies. My roote is opened beside the waters, and dew shal continue in my haruest. My glorie shal alwaies be renewed, and my bow in my hand shal be repayred. They that heard me, expected sentence, and attent held their peace at my counsel. To my words they durst adde nothing, and my speach distilled vpon them. They expected me as rayne, and they opened their mouth as it were to a lateward shower. If at anie time I laughed on them, they belieued not, and the light of my countenance fel not on the earth. If I would haue gone to them, I sate first, and when I sate as a King with his armie standing about him, yet was I a comforter of them that mourned. Rh