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CHAP. IIII

VT Eliphaz the Themanite answering, sayd: If we shal begin to speake to thee, perhaps thou wilt take it grieuously, but the word conceiued who can hold? Behold thou hast taught manie, and wearie hands thou hast strengthned: Them that wauered thy words haue confirmed, and trembling knees thou hast strengthned: But now a plague is come vpon thee, & thou hast faynted: hath touched thee, and art troubled. Where is thy feare, thy strength, thy patience, and the perfection of thy wayes? Remember I beseech thee, who euer being innocent hath perished? or when haue the iust been destroyed? Yea rather I haue seen them that worke iniquitie, and sow sorrowes, and reape them, to haue perished by the blast of God, and with the spirit of his wrath to haue been consumed. The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the lionesse, and the teeth of the welps of lions are bruised: The tigre hath perished, because he had no prey, and the lions whelps are destroyed: Moreouer to me there was spoken a secret word, and as it were by stealth hath mine eare receiued the vaines of the whispering therof. In the horrour of a vision by night, when deep sleep is wont to hold men, feare held me, and trembling, and al my bones were made sore afrayd: And when the spirit passed in my presence, the haires of my flesh stood vpright. There stood one, whose countenance I knew not, an image before mine eies, and I heard the voyce as it were of a gentle winde. What, shal man be iustified in comparison of God, or shal a man be more pure then his maker? Behold they that serue him, are not stable, and in his Angels he found wickednes: How much more they that inhabite houses of clay, which haue an earthly foundation, shal be consumed as it were of the moth? From morning vntil euening they shal be cut downe: and because none vnderstandeth, they shal perish foreuer. And they that shal be least, shal be taken away from them: they shal die, and not in wisedom. Rh