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Rh the impious shal decay, and escape shal faile them, and their hope the abomination of the soule.

CHAP. XII.

VT Iob answering, said: Are you then men alone, & shal wisedome die with you? I also haue a hart euen as you, neither am I inferiour to you: for who is ignorant of these things, which you know? He that is mocked of his freind as I, shal inuocate God, and he wil heare him: for the simplicitie of the iust man is scorned. The lampe contemned in the cogitations of the riche, is prepared to the time appointed. The tabernacles of robbers abound, and they prouoke God boldly, wheras he hath giuen al things into their hands. For aske the beasts, and they shal teach thee: and the foules of the ayre, and they shal tel thee. Speake to the earth, and it shal answer thee, and the fishes of the sea shal tel. Who is ignorant that the hand of our Lord hath made al these things? In whose hand is the soule of euerie liuing thing, and the spirit of al the flesh of man. Doth not the eare discerne words, and the iawes of him that eateth, the tast? In the ancients is wisedom, and in long time prudence. With him is wisedom and strength, he hath counsel and vnderstanding. If he shal destroy, there is no man that can build: if he shut vp a man, there is none that can open. If he hold in the waters, al things shal be dried: and if he send them forth, they shal ouerthrow the earth. With him is strength and wisedom: he knoweth both the deceiuer, and him that is deceiued. He bringeth counselers to a foolish end, & iudges to astonishment. He looseth the belt of Kings, & girdeth their reines with a corde. He leadeth away Priests without glorie, & supplanteth the great men. Changing the lippe of the true, and taking away the doctrine of the ancients. He powreth out contempt vpon Princes, relieuing them that had been oppressed. Who reueileth profound things out of darkenesse, and bringeth forth the shadow of death into light. Who multiplieth nations, & destroyeth them, and restoreth the destroyed whole agayne. Who changeth the hart of the Princes of the people of the earth, and deceiueth them, that they may goe in vayne where is no passage. They shal grope as in the darke, and not in the light, and he shal make them goe amisse as drunken men. Rh