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Doeth the wilde asse bray when he hath grasse? or loweth the oxe ouer his fodder?

Euen that it would please God to destroy mee, that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off.

To him that is afflicted, pitie should be shewed from his friend; But he forsaketh the feare of the Almighty.

Is there not an appointed time to man vpon earth? are not his dayes also like the dayes of an hireling?

As a seruant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his worke:

Hee shall returne no more to his house: neither shall his place know him any more.

Whilest it is yet in his greennesse, and not cut downe, it withereth before any other herbe.

He shall leane vpon his house, but it shall not stand: he shal hold it fast, but it shall not endure.

He is greene before the sunne, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.

His roots are wrapped about the heape, and seeth the place of stones.

If he destroy him from his place, then it shal denie him, saying, I haue not seene thee.

Beholde, this is the ioy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow.

Which remoueth the mountains, and they know not: which ouerturneth them in his anger:

If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers doe stoupe vnder him.

Neither is there any dayes-man betwixt vs, that might lay his hand vpon vs both.

Let him take his rodde away from me, & let not his feare terrifie me:

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

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

He that is ready to slippe with his feet, is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.

Doeth not the eare trie wordes? And the mouth taste his meate?