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Rh is layd vp in my bosome. Why then doe you say now: Let vs persecute him, & let vs finde roote of word agaynst him? Flye therfore from the face of the sword, because the sword is the reuenger of iniquities: and know ye that there is iudgement.

CHAP. XX.

VT Sophar the Naamathite answering, sayd: Therfore my diuerse cogitations succeed one an other, and my minde is rapt into sundrie things. The doctrine, wherwith thou reprouest me, I wil heare, and the spirit of my vnderstanding shal answer me. This I know from the beginning, since man was placed vpon the earth, That the praise of the impious is short, and the ioy of the hypocrite as it were for a moment: If his pride rise vp euen to the heauen, and his head touch the clouds: As a dunghil in the end he shal be destroyed, and they that had seen him, shal say: Where is he? As a dreame that flyeth away he shal not be found, he shal passe as a vision by night: The eie that had seen him, shal not see him, neither shal his place behold him any more. His children shal come to naught with pouertie, and his hands shal render him his sorow. His bones shal be filled with the vices of his youth, & they shal sleep with him in the dust. For when euil shal be sweet in his mouth, he wil hide it vnder his tongue. He wil spare it, & not leaue it, and wil hide it in his throte. His bread in his belly shal be turned into the gaule of aspes within him. The riches which he hath deuoured, he shal vomite out, & God shal draw them forth out of his belly. He shal sucke the head of aspes, and the vipers tongue shal kil him. (Let him not see the streames of the riuer, the torrentes of honie, & of butter.) He shal be punished for al things that he did, & yet not be consumed: according to the multitude of his inuentions so also shal he suffer. Because breaking in he hath made the poore naked: he hath violently taken a house, & built it not. Neither is his bellie filled: and when he shal haue the things he coueted, he can not possesse them. There remayned not of his meate, & therfore nothing shal continue of his goods: When he shal be filled, he shal be straytned, he shal burne, and al sorow shal fal vpon him. Would God his belly were filled, that he may send forth the wrath of his furie vpon him, and rayne his battel vpon him, He shal fly wepons of yron, and shal fal vpon a bowe of brasse. The sword plucked out, and comming forth of his scabbard, and glistening in his bitternesse: the horrible shal goe and come vpon him. Al darkenesse is hid in his secrets: fyre that is not kindled shal deuoure him, he shal be Rh