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The hungrie shall eate vp his haruest: yea, they shall take it from among the thornes, and the thirstie shall drinke vp their substance.

So that the poore hath his hope, but iniquitie shall stop her mouth.

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

That is, that God would destroy me: that he would let his hand go, and cut me off.

He that is in miserie, ought to be comforted of his neighbour: but men haue forsaken the feare of the Almightie.

Is there not an appointed time to man vpon earth? and are not his dayes as the dayes of an hyreling?

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

He shall returne no more to his house, neither shall his place knowe him any more.

His confidence also shalbe cut off, and his trust shalbe as the house of a spyder.

He shall leane vpon his house, but it shall not stand: he shal holde him fast by it, yet shall it not endure.

If any plucke it from his place, and it denie, saying, I haue not seene thee,

He remoueth the mountaines, and they feele not when he ouerthroweth them in his wrath.

God will not withdrawe his anger, and the most mightie helpes doe stoupe vnder him.

Neyther is there any vmpire that might lay his hand vpon vs both.

Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his feare astonish me:

But, oh that God would speake and open his lippes against thee!

Canst thou by searching finde out God? canst thou finde out ye Almighty to his perfection?

I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth vpon God, and he heareth him: the iust and the vpright is laughed to scorne.

The tabernacles of robbers doe prosper, and they are in safetie, that prouoke God, whome God hath enriched with his hand.

With him is strength and wisedome: hee that is deceiued, and that deceiueth, are his.