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Rh sinne, and why doest thou not take away mine iniquitie? Behold now I shal sleep in the dust: and if thou seek me in the morning, I shal not be.

CHAP. VIII.

VT Baldad the Suhite answering, sayd: How long wilt thou speake such things, & shal the spirit of the word of thy mouth be multiplied? Why, doth God supplant iudgement? or doth the Omnipotent subuert that which is iust? Although thy children haue sinned to him, and he hath leaft them in the hand of their iniquitie: Yet if thou wilt arise early to God, & wilt beseech the Omnipotent: If thou wilt walke cleane & vpright, he wil forthwith awake vnto thee, and wil make the habitation of thy iustice peaceable: In so much, that if thy former things haue been litle, thy later things may be multiplied exceedingly. For aske the old generation, and search diligently the memorie of the fathers. (For we are but as yesterday, & are ignorant that our daies vpon the earth are as a shadow.) And they shal teach thee: they shal speake to thee, and from their hart shal vtter words. Can the rush be greene without moysture? or a seggie place grow without water? When it is yet in his flowre, and is not plucked with the hand, it withereth before al hearbs: Euen so the waies of al, that forget God, and the hope of the hypocrite shal perish: His folie shal not please him, and his confidence as the spiders web. He shal leane vpon his house, and it shal not stand: he shal stay it vp, and it shal not rise: He seemeth moystned before the sunne come, & in his rising his blossome shal goe forth. Vpon a heape of rockes his roots shal be thicke, and among stones he shal abide. If he swallow him vp out of his place, he wil denie him, and wil say: I know thee not. For this is the ioy of his way, that others may spring againe of the earth. God wil not reiect the simple, nor reach his hand to the malignant. Vntil thy mouth be filled with laughter, & thy lips with iubilation. They that hate thee, shal be clothed with confusion: and the tabernacle of the impious shal not stand. Rh