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CHAP. XXXVI.

LIV also adding spake these words: Beare with me a litle, and I wil shew to thee: for as yet I haue what to speake for God. I wil repeate my knowledge from the beginning, and I wil proue my maker iust. For indeed my words are without lye, & perfect knowledge shal be proued to thee. God doth not cast away the mightie, wheras himself also is mightie. But he saueth not the impious, and he giueth iudgement to the poor. He shal not take away his eyes from the iust man, and he placeth Kings in the throne for euer, and there they are extolled. And if they shal be in cheines, & be bound with the ropes of pouertie. He shal shew them their works, and their wicked deeds, because they haue been violent. He also shal reueale their eare, to chastise them: & shal speake, that they may returne from iniquitie: If they shal heare and obserue, they shal accomplish their daies in good, and their yeares in glorie. But if they heare not, they shal passe by the sword, and shal be consumed in folie. Dissemblers and craftie men prouoke the wrath of God, neither shal they crie when they are bound. Their soule shal dye in tempest, and their life, among the effeminate. He shal deliuer the poore out of his distresse, and shal reuele his eare in tribulation. Therfore he shal saue thee most largely out of the narrow mouth, and not hauing foundation vnder it: and the quietnesse of thy table shal be ful of fatnesse. Thy cause is iudged as an impious mans, cause and iudgement thou shalt receiue. Let not therfore anger ouercome thee, that thou oppresse anie man: neither let multitude of guifts incline thee. Lay downe thy greatnes without tribulation, & al the puissant of strength. Protract not the night, that peoples may come vp for them. Beware thou decline not to iniquitie: for thou hast begunne to folow it after miserie. Behold, God is high in his strength, and none is like to him among the law giuers. Who can search his waies? or who can say to him: Thou hast wrought iniquitie? Remember that thou knowest not his worke, wherof men haue sung. Al men see him, euerie one beholdeth far off. Behold, God is great surmounting our knowledge: the number of his yeares is inestimable. Who taketh away the drops of raine, & powreth out showers as it were gulfes of water. Which flow out from the clouds, that couer al things from aboue. If he wil Rh