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[1] Iob aunswered, and saide
[2] O heare diligently my wordes, and that shalbe in steede of your consolations
[3] Suffer me that I may speake, and when I haue spoken mocke on
[4] Is it for mans sake that I make this disputation? Which if it were so, shoulde not my spirite then be in sore trouble
[5] Marke me [well] and be abashed, and lay your hande vpon your mouth
[6] For when I consider [my selfe] I am afrayde, and my fleshe is smitten with feare
[7] Wherefore do wicked men liue, come to their olde age, and increase in richesse
[8] Their children lyue in their sight, and their generation before their eyes
[9] Their houses are safe from all feare, and the rod of God is not vpon them
[10] Their bullocke gendreth and that not out of time, their cowe calueth and is not vnfruitfull
[11] They sende foorth their children by flockes, & their sonnes [leade the] daunce
[12] They beare with them tabrets and harpes, and reioyce in the sounde of the organs
[13] They spend their dayes in wealthines, but sodainely they go downe to the graue
[14] They say also vnto God: Go from vs, we desire not the knowledge of thy wayes
[15] Who is the almightie that we should serue him? And what profite should we haue if we should pray vnto him
[16] Lo, there is vtterly no goodnesse in their hande, therefore wyll I not haue to do with the counsaile of the vngodly
[17] How oft shall the candell of the wicked be put out, and their destruction come vpon them? O what sorowe shall God geue them for their part in his wrath
[18] Yea, they shalbe euen as hay before the winde, and as chaffe that the storme carieth away
[19] God wyll lay vp the sorowe of the father for his children: & when he rewardeth him, he shall know it
[20] Their owne miserie shal they see with their eyes, and drinke of the fearefull wrath of the almightie
[21] For what careth he for his house after his death, when the number of his monethes is cut short
[22] Seeing God hath the highest power of all, who can teache him any knowledge
[23] One dyeth in his full strength, being in all ease and prosperitie
[24] His breastes are full of milke, and his bones runne full of marowe
[25] Another dyeth in the bitternes of his soule, and neuer eateth with pleasure
[26] They shall sleepe both alyke in the earth, and the wormes shall couer them
[27] Beholde, I know what ye thinke, yea and the subtiltie that ye imagine against me
[28] For ye say where is the princes palace? and where is the dwelling of the vngodly
[29] Haue ye not asked them that go by the way? Doubtlesse ye cannot denie their tokens
[30] That the wicked is kept vnto the day of destruction, and the vngodly shalbe brought foorth to the day of wrath
[31] Who dare declare his way to his face? who wil rewarde him for that he doth
[32] Yet shall he be brought to his graue, and dwell among the heape [of the dead.
[33] Then shal the slymie valley be sweet vnto him, all men also must folowe him, as there are innumerable gone before him
[34] Howe vayne then is the comfort that ye geue me, seyng falshood remayneth in all your aunsweres
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