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Rh & where are the tabernacles of the impious? Aske anie of the wayfaring men, & you shall vnderstand that he knoweth these self-same things. Because the euil man is kept vnto the day of perdition, and he shal be led to the day of furie. Who shal reproue his way before him? and who shal repay him the things that he hath done? He shal be brought to the graues, and shal watch in the head of the dead. He hath been sweet to the grauel of * Cocytus, and after him he shal drawe euerie man, and before him innumerable. How therfore doe ye comfort me in vayne, whereas your answer is shewed to be repugnant to the truth?

CHAP. XXII.

VT Eliphaz the Themanite answering, sayd: Can man be compared with God, yea though he be of perfect knowledge. What doth it profite God if thou be iust? or what doest thou aduantage him if thy way be vnspotted? Shal he be afrayde to reproue thee, and come with thee into iudgement: And not for thy very great malice, and thine infinite iniquities? For thou hast taken away the pledge of thy brethren without cause, and the naked thou hast spoyled of clothes. Water to the wearie thou hast not giuen, and from the hungrie thou hast withdrawen bread. In the strength of thine arme thou didst possesse the earth, and being the mightiest thou didst obteyne it. Widowes thou hast sent away emptie, and the armes of pupils thou hast broken in pieces. Therfore art thou compassed with snares, and sodain feare troubleth thee. And thoughtest thou that thou shouldest not see darkeness, and that thou shouldest not be oppressed with the violence of ouerflowing waters? Doest thou not thinke that God is higher then heauen, and is exalted aboue the top of the starres? And thou sayst: For what knoweth God? and he iudgeth as it were by a mist. The clouds are his couert, neither doth he consider our things, and he walketh about the poles of heauen. Doest thou couet to keep the path of worlds, which wicked men haue troden? Who were taken away before their time, and a floud hath ouerthrowen their foundation. Who sayd to God: Depart from vs; and as though the Omnipotent could doe nothing, they esteemed him: Whereas he had filled their houses with good things, whose sentence be far from me. The iust shal see, & shal reioyse, & the innocent man shal skorne them. Is Rh