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Rh didst not spare the offender. But if so also I am impious, why haue I laboured in vayne? If I be washed as it were with snow-waters, & my handes shal shine as most cleane: Yet shal thou dippe me in filth, and my garments shal abhorre me. For neither I wil answer a man that is like my self: nor that may be heard with me equally in iudgement. There is none that may be able to reproue both, and to put his hand betwen both. Let him take his rod from me, and let not his dread terrifie me. I wil speake, and wil not feare him: for I can not answer fearing.

CHAP. X.

Y soule is wearie of my life, I wil let my speach passe agaynst my self. I wil speake in the bitternes of my soule. I wil say to God: Condemne me not: tel me why thou iudgest me so. Doth it seeme good to thee, if thou calumniate me, and oppresse me the worke of thy hands, and helpe the counsel of the impious? Hast thou eies of flesh: or as a man seeth, shalt thou also see? Are thy daies as the daies of man, and are thy yeares as the times of men: That thou seekest my iniquitie, and searchest my sinne? And thou mayst know that I haue done no impious thing, whereas there is no man that can deliuer out of thy hand. Thy hands haue made me, & framed me wholly round-about, & dost thou so sodainlie cast me downe headlong? Remember I besech thee that as clay thou madest me, & into dust thou wilt bring me agayne. Hast thou not as milke milked me, and curded me as cheese? With skinne & flesh thou hast clothed me: with bones & sinowes thou hast compacted me. Life and mercie thou hast giuen to me, and thy visitation hath kept my spirit. Although thou conceale these things in thy hart, yet I know that thou remembrest al things. If I haue sinned and thou hast spared me for an houre: why doest thou not suffer me to be clean from mine iniquitie? And if I shal be impious, woe is to me: and if iust, I shal not lift vp my head, filled with affliction and miserie. And for pride as a lionesse thou wilt take me, and returning thou doest meruelously torment me. Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, & multipliest thy wrath toward me, and paynes doe warre vpon me. Why didst thou bring me forth out of the matrice? Who would God, I had beene Rh