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There the righteous might reason with him, so I shoulde be deliuered for euer from my Iudge.

For he will performe that, which is decreed of me, and many such things are with him.

For God hath softened mine heart, & the Almightie hath troubled me.

For I am not cut off in darknesse, but he hath hid the darkenesse from my face.

Behold, others as wilde asses in the wildernesse, goe forth to their businesse, and rise early for a praye: the wildernesse giueth him and his children foode.

They are wet with the showres of the moutaines, and they imbrace the rocke for want of a couering.

The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, and sayth, None eye shal see me, and disguiseth his face.

They digge through houses in the darke, which they marked for themselues in the daye: they knowe not the light.

They are exalted for a litle, but they are gone, and are brought lowe as all others: they are destroyed, and cut off as the toppe of an eare of corne.

The graue is naked before him, and there is no couering for destruction.

The liuing God hath taken away my iudgement: for the Almightie hath put my soule in bitternesse.

For what hope hath the hypocrite when he hath heaped vp riches, if God take away his soule?

Man knoweth not the price thereof: for it is not found in the land of the liuing.

Golde shall not be giuen for it, neyther shall siluer be weighed for the price thereof.

The golde nor the chrystall shall be equall vnto it, nor the exchange shalbe for plate of fine golde.

No mention shall be made of coral, nor of the gabish: for wisedome is more precious then pearles.

For he beholdeth the endes of the world, and seeth all that is vnder heauen,

When he made a decree for the rayne, and a way for the lightening of the thunders,

For I deliuered the poore that cryed, and the fatherlesse, and him that had none to helpe him.

For my roote is spread out by the water, and the dewe shall lye vpon my branche.