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The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.

In the darke they digge through houses which they had marked for themselues in the day time: they know not the light.

For the morning is to them euen as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrours of the shadow of death.

They are exalted for a litle while, but are gone and brought low, they are taken out of the way as al other, and cut off as the tops of the eares of corne.

For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soule?

If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offpring shall not be satisfied with bread.

For God shall cast vpon him, and not spare: hee would faine flee out of his hand.

Surely there is a veine for the siluer, and a place for golde where they fine it.

As for the earth, out of it commeth bread: and vnder it, is turned vp as it were fire.

It cannot be gotten for golde, neither shall siluer be weighed for the price thereof.

The golde and the chrystall cannot equall it: and the exchange of it shall not be for iewels of fine golde.

No mention shalbe made of Corall, or of Pearles: for the price of wisedome is aboue Rubies.

For hee looketh to the endes of the earth, and seeth vnder the whole heauen:

To make the weight for the windes, and he weigheth the waters by measure.

When hee made a decree for the raine, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:

The blessing of him that was readie to perish, came vpon me: and I caused the widowes heart to sing for ioy.

And they waited for me as for the raine, and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter raine.

For want and famine they were solitarie: flying into the wildernesse in former time desolate and waste:

Who cut vp mallowes by the bushes, and Iuniper rootes for their meate.

For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all liuing.