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CHAP. XIII.

EHOLD mine eie hath seene al these things, and mine eare hath heard, and I haue vnderstood euerie thing. According to your knowledge I also do know: neither am I inferiour to you. But yet I wil speake to the Omnipotent, and I couet to dispute with God. First shewing you to be forgers of lying, and mainteyners of peruerse opinions. And would God ye would hold your peace, that you might be thought to be wise men. Heare ye therfore my correptions, and attend the iudgement of my lips. Hath God neede of your lye, that for him you speake guiles? Doe you take his person, and doe you endeauour to iudge for God? Or shal it please him from whom nothing can be concealed, or shal he be deceiued as a man, with your fraudulent dealings? He shal reproue you, because in secrete you take his person. Forthwith as he shal moue himself, he shal trouble you: and his terrour shal come violently vpon you. Your memorie shal be compared to ashes, and your neckes shal be brought into clay. Hold your peace a litle while, that I may speake, whatsoeuer my minde shal prompt me. Why doe I teare my flesh with my teeth, ande carie my soule in my hands? Although he shal kil me, I wil trust in him: but yet I wil reproue my waies in his sight. And he shal be my sauiour: for no hypocrite shal come in his sight. Heare ye my word, and receiue the obscure sayings with your eares. If I shal be iudged, I know that I shal be found iust. What is he that wil be iudged with me? let him come: why am I consumed holding my peace? Two things only do not to me, and then shal I not be hid from thy face: Make thy hand far from me, and let not thy feare terrifie me. Cal me, and I wil answer thee: or els I wil speake, and doe thou answer me. How great iniquities and sinnes I haue, my wicked deeds and my offences shewe thou me. Why hidest thou thy face, and thinkest me thine enemy? Against the leafe, that is violently taken with the wind, thou shewest thy might, and persecutest drie stuble. For thou writest bitternes against me, and wilt consume me with the sinnes of my youth. Thou hast put my feete in the stocks, and hast obserued al my Rh