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CHAP. XL.

ND our Lord answering Iob out of the whirlewind, sayd: Gird thy loynes as a man: I wil aske thee, & doe thou tel me. Shalt thou make my iudgement of none effect: and condemne me, that thou mayst be iustified? And hast thou an arme as God, and dost thou thunder with like voice? Put beautie about thee, and set vp thy selfe aloft, and be glorious, and put on goodlie garments. Disperse the proud in thy furie, and beholding euerie arrogant man, humble him. Behold al the proud, and confound them, and destroy the impious in their place. Hide them in the dust together, and plunge their faces in the pit. And I wil confesse, that thy right hand is able to saue thee. Behold, Behemoth whom I made with thee, shal eate hay as it were an oxe. His strength is in his loynes, and his power in the nauil of his bellie. He gathereth together his taile as the cedar tree, the sinewes of his stones are perplexe. His bones are as pipes of brasse, his gristle as it were plates of iron. He is the beginning of the wayes of God, which made him, he shal applie his sword. To him the mountaines beare grasse: al the beasts of the field shal play there. He sleepeth vnder the shadow, in the secret of the reed, and in moyst places. Shadowes doe protect his shadow, the willowes of the torrent shal compasse him. Loe, he shal sup vp the riuer, & shal not meruaile: and he hath confidence that Iordan may runne into his mouth. In his eies as with a hook he shal take him, and with stakes he shal boare through his nosthrels. Canst thou drawe out the Leuiathan with a hooke, and with a rope shalt thou tye his tongue? Shalt thou put a ring in his nosthrels, or bore through his iaw with a buckle? Wil he multiplie prayers to thee, or speake to thee gentle words? Wil he make a couenant with thee, and shalt thou take him to be a seruant for euer? Shalt thou delude him as a birde, or tye him for thy handmayds? Shal freinds cut him, merchants diuide him? Shalt thou fil nettes with his skinne, and the cabbin of fishes with his head? Lay thy hand vpon him: remember battel, and adde to speake no more. Behold his hope shal frustrate him, and in the sight of al he shal be cast downe headlong. Rh