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966 These things haue I suffred without the iniquitie of my hand, wheras I had cleane prayers to God. Earth couer not my bloud, neither let my crie find place in thee to be hid. For behold my witnesse is in heauen, and he that knoweth my conscience on high. My freinds ful of wordes: mine eie distilleth vnto God. And would God a man might so be iudged with God, as the sonne of man is iudged with his companion. For behold the short yeares passe away, and I walke the path, by the which I shal not returne.

CHAP. XVII.

Y spirit shal be extenuated, my daies shal be shortned, and the graue only remaineth for me. I haue not sinned, and mine eie abideth in bitternesse. Deliuer me, and set me beside thee, and let anie mans hand fight against me. Thou hast made their hart far from discipline, and therfore they shal not be exalted. He promiseth a praye to his felowes, and the eies of his children shal faile. He hath set me as it were for a prouerbe of the common people, and I am an example before them. Mine eie is dimme for indignation, and my members are brought as it were to nothing. The iust shal be astonished vpon this, and the innocent shal be raised vp against the hypocrite. And the iust shal hold his way, & with cleane hands shal adde strength. Be al you therfore conuerted, and come, and I shal not find among you anie wise man. My daies haue passed, my cogitations are dissipated, tormenting my hart: Night they haue turned into day, and againe after darkenesse I hope for light. If I shal expect, * hel is my house, and in darknesse I haue made my bed. I haue sayd to rottenes: Thou art my father, my mother, and my sister, to wormes. Where is now then my expectation, and my patience who considereth. Al my things shal descend into most deep hel: there at the least, shal I haue rest thinkest thou? Rh