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Yf I go on the left syde to pondre his workes, I can not atteyne vnto them: Agayne, yf I go on the right syde, he hydeth himself, yt I can not se him.

Neuertheles my fete kepe his path, his hye strete haue I holden, and not gone out of it.

I haue not forsaken the comaundemet of his lippes, but loke what he charged me with his mouth, that haue I shutt vp in my herte.

He rewardeth me into my bosome, & many other thinges mo doth he, as he maye by his power.

This is ye cause, that I shrenke at his presence, so that when I considre him, I am afrayed of him.

Consideringe then that there is no tyme hyd from the Allmightie, how happeneth it, that they which knowe him, wil not regarde his dayes?

They reape the corne felde that is not their owne: and gather the grapes out of his vynyarde, whom they haue oppressed by violence.

where as they (not wt stodinge) are rebellious and disobedient enemies: which seke not his light and waye, ner turne agayne in to his path.

The eye of the vngodly is like the aduouterer, that wayteth for the darcknesse, and sayeth thus in him self: Tush, there shal no ma se me, & so he disgyseth his face.

The vngodly is very swyft: O yt his porcio also vpo earth were swyfter then ye runnynge water, which suffreth not ye shipma to beholde the fayre & pleasaut vyniardes.

Power & feare is with him aboue, that maketh peace (sittinge) in his hynesse,

Beholde, the Moone shyneth nothinge in comparison to him, & the starres are vnclene in his sight.

yee & all they which dwell beneth in the hell are not hyd fro him, & the very destruccion it self ca not be kepte out of his sight.

He byndeth ye water in his cloudes, that they fall not downe together.

He holdeth back his stole, that it caa not be sene, and spredeth his cloudes before it.

The very pilers of heaue treble & quake at his reprofe.

He stilleth the see with his power, & thorow his wy?dome hath he set forth ye worlde.

With his sprete hath he garnished the heaues, & with his hande hath he wounded the rebellious serpet.

This is now a shorte summe of his doynges. But who is able sufficiently to rehearce his workes? Who can perceaue and vnderstonde ye thondre of his power?

Iob also proceaded and wete forth in his communicacion, sayege: