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Rh ancient, therfore casting downe my head, I was afrayd to shew you my sentence. For I hoped that longer age would speake, and that a multitude of yeares would teach wisdome. But as I see, there is a Spirit in men, and the inspiration of the Omnipotent giueth vnderstanding. They of many yeares are not the wise men, neither doe the ancients vnderstand iudgement. Therfore wil I speake: Heare ye me, I also wil shew you my wisedom. For I haue expected your words, I haue heard your wisdome, as long as you contended in words. 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 words. 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 words. They were afrayd, and answered no more, and they haue taken away talke from themselues. Therfore because I haue expected, and they spake not: they stood, and answered no more: I also wil answer my part, & wil shew my knowledge. For I am ful of words, and the spirit of my bellie streytneth 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, & I wil not make God equal to man. For I know not how long I shal continue, and whether after a while my maker wil take me away.

CHAP. XXXIII.

EARE therfore Iob my sayings, and harken to al my words. Behold I haue opened my mouth, let my tongue speake within my iawes. My words 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 words: 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 Rh