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CHAP. XXXIIII.

LIV therfore pronouncing spake these words also: Heare ye wise men my words, and ye learned harken to me: For the eare proueth words, and the throate discerneth meates by the tast. Let vs choose vs iudgement, and among vs let vs see what is the better. Because Iob sayd: I am iust, and God hath subuerted my iudgement. For in iudging me there is a lie: mine arrow is violent without anie sinne. What man is there as is Iob, that drinketh skorning as it were water? That goeth with them that worke iniquitie, and walketh with impious men? For he hath sayd: Man shal not please God although he runne with him Therfore ye discrete men heare me, far from God be impietie, and iniquitie from the Omnipotent. For he wil render a man his worke, & according to the waies of euerie one he wil recompence them. For in verie deed God wil not condemne without cause, neither wil the Omnipotent subuert iudgement. What other hath he appointed ouer the earth? or whom hath he set ouer the world, which he made? If he direct his hart to him, he shal draw his spirit and breath vnto him. Al flesh shal faile together, and man shal returne into ashes. If then thou haue vnderstanding, heare that is sayd, and harken to the voice of my speach. Can he that loueth not iudgement, be healed? and how doest thou so far condemne him, that is iust? That sayth to the King, Apostata: that calleth dukes impious: Who accepteth not the persons of Princes: nor hath knowen the tyrant, when he contended against the poore man: for al are the worke of his hands. They shal sodainly die, and at mid-night peoples shal be troubled, & shal passe, & take away the violent without hand. For his eies are vpon the waies of men, and he considereth al their steps. There is not darkenesse, & there is not shadow of death, that they may be hid there which worke iniquitie. For it is no more in mans power, to come to God into iudgement. He shal destroy manie, & innumerable, & shal make other to stand for them. For he knoweth their workes: and therfore he shal bring night, and they shal be destroyed. As impious men he hath strucken them in the place of them that see. Who as it were of purpose haue reuolted from him, & would not vnderstand al his waies: That they caused the crie of the needy man to come to him, & he heard the voice of the poore. For he Rh