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The power & stregth of their hades might do me no good, & as for their age, it is spet & past awaye without eny profit.

For very misery & honger, they wente aboute in the wildernesse like wretches & beggers,

For ye LORDE hath opened his quyuer, he hath hytt me, & put a brydle in my mouth.

& my path haue they clene marred. It was so easy for them to do me harme, that they neded no man to helpe the.

Sure I am, yt thou wilt delyuer me vnto death: where as a lodgyng is prepared for all me

Yet neuerthelesse where as I loked for good, euell happened vnto me: and where as I waited for light, there came darcknesse.

My bowels seeth wt in me & take no rest, for ye dayes of my trouble are come vpo me.

For how greate a porcio shal I haue of God fro aboue? & what enheritauce fro ye Almightie on hie?

As for the vngodly & he yt ioyneth himself to ye copani of wicked doers shal not destruccion & misery came vpon him?

For this is a wickednesse and synne, that is worthy to be punyshed,

But seynge that God wil sytt in iudgment, what shal I do? And for so moch as he wil nedes vyset me, what answere shal I geue him?

When the poore desyred enythinge at me, haue I denyed it them? Haue I caused ye wyddowe stonde waytinge for me in vayne?

(for mercy grewe vp with me fro my youth, & compassion fro my mothers wombe.)

Haue I sene eny man perish thorow nakednes & want of clothinge? Or, eny poore man for lack of rayment,

For I haue euer feared ye vengeaunce & punyshmet of God, & knew very well, yt I was not able to beare his burthe.

(that were a wickednesse worthy to be punyshed, for then shulde I haue denyed the God that is aboue.)

For yf I had feared eny greate multitude of people: Or yf I had bene dispysed of ye symple, Oh then shulde I haue bene afrayed. Thus haue I quyetly spent my lyfe, and not gone out at ye dore.

yf I haue eaten the frutes therof vnpayed for, yee yf I haue greued eny of the plow men:

Than, let thistles growe in steade of my wheate, & thornes for my barlye.Here ende the wordes of Iob.

Now taried Eliu till they had ended their communicacion with Iob, for why? they were elder then he.