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Rh paths, and hast considered the steps of my feet. Who as rottenes am to be consumed, and as a garment, that is eaten of the moth.

CHAP XIIII.

AN borne of woman, liuing a short time, is replenished with many miseries. Who as a flowre commeth forth and is destroyed, and flyeth as a shadow, and neuer abideth in the same state. And doest thou count it a worthy thing to open thine eies vpon such an one, and to bring him with thee into iudgement? Who can make cleane him that is conceiued of vncleane seede? is it not thou which onlie art? The daies of man are short, and the number of his months is with thee, thou hast appointed his limits which can not be passed. Depart a litle from him, that he may rest, vntil his day wished for come, euen as the hyred man&rsquo;s. A tree hath hope: if it be cut, it waxeth greene againe, and the boughs thereof spring. If his roote be old in the earth, and the trunke therof be dead in the dust, At the sent of water it shal spring, and bring forth leaues, as when it was first planted. But when man shal be dead, and naked, and consumed, where is he I pray? As if the waters should depart out of the sea, and a riuer made emptie should be dried vp. So man when he is asleep shal not rise agayne, til heauen perish, he shal not awake, nor rise vp out of his sleep. Who wil grant me this, that in hel thou protect me, and hide me til thy furie passe, and appoynt me a time, wherin thou wilt remember me? Shal man that is dead, thinkest thou, liue agayne? al the daies, in which I am now in warfare, I expect vntil my change doe come. Thou shalt cal me, and I shal answer thee: to the worke of thy hands thou shalt reach thy right hand. Thou indeed hast numbred my steps: but thou wilt spare my sinnes. Thou hast sealed my offences as it were in a bag, but hast cured mine iniquitie. A mountaine falling slideth downe, and a rock is remoued out of his place. Waters make stones holow, and with inundation the earth by litle and litle is consumed: and men therfore thou shalt destroy in like manner. Thou hast strengthned him a litle, that he might passe away foreuer: thou shalt change his face, and shalt send him forth. Whether his children shal be noble, or vnnoble, he shal not vnderstand. But yet his flesh whiles he shal liue shal haue sorow, and his soule shal mourne vpon himself. Rh