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For my sighing commeth before I eate, and my roarings are powred out like the water.

For the thing I feared, is come vpon me, and the thing yt I was afraid of, is come vnto me.

The Lyon perisheth for lacke of pray, and the Lyons whelpes are scattered abroade.

They be destroyed from the morning vnto the euening: they perish for euer, without regarde.

For miserie commeth not foorth of the dust, neither doeth affliction spring out of the earth.

For he maketh the wound, and bindeth it vp: he smiteth, and his handes make whole.

For the stones of the fielde shall be in league with thee, and the beastes of the field shal be at peace with thee.

Lo, thus haue we inquired of it, and so it is: heare this and knowe it for thy selfe.

For it woulde be nowe heauier then the sande of the sea: therefore my wordes are swallowed vp.

For the arrowes of the Almightie are in me, the venime whereof doeth drinke vp my spirit, and the terrours of God fight against me.

Oh that I might haue my desire, and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!

They that go to Tema, considered them, and they that goe to Sheba, waited for them.

Ye make your wrath to fall vpon the fatherlesse, and dig a pit for your friende.

Nowe therefore be content to looke vpon me: for I will not lie before your face.

As a seruant longeth for the shadowe, and as an hyreling looketh for the ende of his worke,

I abhorre it, I shall not liue alway: spare me then, for my dayes are but vanitie.

And why doest thou not pardon my trespasse? and take away mine iniquitie? for nowe shall I sleepe in the dust, and if thou seekest me in the morning, I shall not be found.

(For we are but of yesterday, and are ignorant: for our dayes vpon earth are but a shadowe)

I knowe verily that it is so: for howe should man compared vnto God, be iustified?

For though I were iust, yet could I not answere, but I would make supplicatio to my Iudge.