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`Which God byndith watris in her cloudis, that tho breke not out togidere dounward.

`Whych God holdith the cheer of his seete, and spredith abrood theron his cloude.

God lyueth, that hath take awey my doom, and Almyyti God, that hath brouyt my soule to bitternesse.

For as long as breeth is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nose thirlis,

For what is the hope of an ypocrite, if he rauyschith gredili, and God delyuerith not his soule?

Whether God schal here the cry of hym, whanne angwisch schal come on hym?

ether whether he may delite in Almyyti God, and inwardli clepe God in al tyme?

Y schal teche you bi the hond of God, what thingis Almyyti God hath; and Y schal not hide.

This is the part of a wickid man anentis God, and the eritage of violent men, ether rauenours, whiche thei schulen take of Almyyti God.

God hath set tyme to derknessis, and he biholdith the ende of alle thingis.

God stretchide forth his hond to a flynt; he distriede hillis fro the rootis.

God vndurstondith the weye therof, and he knowith the place therof.

`Which God made weiyte to wyndis, and weiede watris in mesure.

Who yyueth to me, that I be bisidis the elde monethis, bi the daies in whiche God kepte me?

As Y was in the daies of my yongthe, whanne in priuete God was in my tabernacle.

Whanne Almyyti God was with me, and my children weren in my cumpas;

For God hath openyd his arowe caas, and hath turmentid me, and hath set a bridil in to my mouth.

For what part schulde God aboue haue in me, and eritage Almyyti God of hiye thingis?

Whether perdicioun is not to a wickid man, and alienacioun of God is to men worchynge wickidnesse?

God weie me in a iust balaunce, and knowe my symplenesse.