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960, that eye might not see me. I had been as if I were not, caried from the wombe to the graue. Shal not the fewnes of my daies be ended shortly? Suffer me therfore, that I may a litle lament my sorow: Before I goe, and returne not, vnto the darke land, that is couered with the mist of death: A land of miserie and darkenesse, where is the shadow of death, and no order, but euerlasting horrour inhabiteth.

CHAP. XI.

UT Sophar the Naamathite answering, said: Why, shal he that speaketh manie things, not heare also? or shal a man ful of words be iustified? To thee onlie shal men hold their peace? & when thou hast mocked others, shalt thou be confuted of none? For thou hast sayd: My word is pure, and I am cleane in thy sight. And I would wish that God would speake with thee, and would open his lippes to thee. That he might shew thee the secrets of wisdom, and that his law is manifold, and thou mightest vnderstand that thou art exacted much lesser things of him, then thy iniquitie deserueth. Peraduenture thou wilt comprehend the steps of God, and wilt find out the Omnipotent perfectly? He is higher then heauen, and what wilt thou doe? deeper then hel, and how wilt thou know? The measure of him is longer then the earth, and broder then the sea. If he shal ouerthrow al things, or shal strayten them into one, who shal say against him? For he knoweth the vanitie of men, & seeing iniquity doth he not consider? A vaine man is extolled into pride, & thinketh himself borne free as a wilde asses colt. But thou hast confirmed thy hart, & hast spred thy hands to him. If thou shalt take away from thee the iniquitie that is in thy hand, and iniustice remaine not in thy tabernacle: Then mayst thou lift vp thy face wthout spot, & thou shalt be stable, & shalt not feare. Thou shalt also forget miserie, & shalt remember it as waters that are passed. And the brightnes as it were of noone-daies, shal arise to thee at euening: and when thou shalt think thyself consumed, thou shalt rise as the day starre. And thou shalt haue confidence, hope being set before thee, & buried thou shalt sleep secure. Thou shalt rest, and there shal be none to terrifie thee: and verie manie shal beseech thy face. But the eies of Rh