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Rh for anguish are my meats. Who wil grant that my petition may come: and that God would giue me that which I expect? And he that hath begun, the same would loose his hand, and cut me off? And this might be my comfort, that afflicting me with sorrow, he spare not, nor I gaynesay the words of the Holie one. For what is my strength, that I can susteyne it? or what is mine end, that I should doe patiently? Neither is my strength the strength of stones, neither is my flesh of brasse. Behold there is no help for me in my self, and my familiar freinds also are departed from me. He that taketh away mercie from his freind, forsaketh the feare of our Lord. My brethren haue passed by me, as the torrent that passeth swiftly in the valleys. They that feare the hoarefrost, snow shal fal vpon them. At the time, when they shal be dissipated they shal perish: & after they waxe hote they shal be disolued out of their place. The paths of their steps are intangled: they shal walke in vaine, & shal perish. Consider ye the paths of Thema, the wayes of Saba, & expect a litle while. They are confounded, because I haue hoped: they are come also euen vnto me, and are couered with shame. Now you are come: and euen now seeing my plague you are afraid. Haue I sayd: Bring ye to me, and of your substance giue to me? Or deliuer me from the hand of the enemie, and out of the hand of the strong deliuer me? Teach ye me, and I wil hold my peace: and if I perhaps haue been ignorant in anie thing, instruct ye me. Why haue you detracted from the words of truth, whereas there is none of you that can controle me? To rebuke only you frame speaches, and you vtter words in the wind. You rush in vpon a pupil, and you endeauour to ouerthrow your freind. Notwithstanding accomplish that which you haue begune: giue eare, and see whether I lie. Answer I beseech you without contention: and speaking that which is iust, iudge ye. And you shal not finde iniquitie in my tongue, neither shal folie sound in my iawes.

ANNOTATIONS. CHAP. VI.

3. As the sand of the sea.) Scarce anie figure is more common in holie Scripture then Hyperbole: wherby our vnderstanding is drawne to conceiue the greatnes of things that otherwise surpasse vulgar capacitie. So Iob signifieth here that his calamitie being weighed with his sinnes in a balance, would appeare heauier, not precisely in proportion of the number of sands in the sea, but exceeding much in true comparison. Of which superabundance of paines patiently suffered by holie Iob, and other Saints, more then their sinnes deserued, especially of our B. Sauiour, who could not sinne, and of our B. Ladie, who neuer sinned, remayneth an infinitie treasure of satisfactorie workes, applicable by the Rh