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Then sayde his wife vnto him: Dost thou yet cotynue in thy perfectnesse? curse God, & dye.

But Iob sayde vnto her: Thou speakest like a foolish woma. Seinge we haue receaued prosperite at the honde of God, wherfore shulde we not be content with aduersite also? In all these thinges, dyd not Iob synne with his lippes.

The same daye be turned to darcknesse, and not regarded of God from aboue, nether be shyned vpo wt light:

To the man whose waye is hyd, which God kepeth backe from him.

Where is now thy feare of God, thy stedfastnesse, thy pacience, and the perfectnesse of thy life?

For whe God bloweth vpon them, they perysh, and are destroyed thorow the blast of his wrath.

Maye a man be iustified before God? Maye there eny man be iudged to be clene, by reason of his owne workes?

But now will I speake off the LORDE, and talke of God:

Beholde, happie is the man, whom God punysheth: therfore, despyse not thou ye chastenynge of the Allmighty.

For the allmighty hath shott at me with his arowes, whose indignacion hath droncke vp my sprete, and ye terrible feares of God fight agaysnt me.

O that I might haue my desyre: O yt God wolde graunte me the thynge, that I longe for:

like as yf one withdrewe a good dede from his frende, and forsoke the feare of God?

Doth God peruerte the thinge that is laufull? Or, doth the Allmightie destroye the thynge that is right?

Yff thou woldest now resorte vnto God by tymes, and make thine humble prayer to ye Allmightie:

Euen so goeth it with all them, that forget God: and euen thus also shal the ypocrytes hope come to naught.

Beholde, God will not cast awaye a vertuous man, nether wil he helpe the vngodly.

As for yt I knowe it is so of a treuth, yt a man compared vnto God, can not be iustified.

He is God, whose wrath no man maye with stode: but the proudest of all must stoupe vnder him.

and will saye vnto God: O do not condemne me, but shewe me the cause, wherfore thou iudgest me on this maner.

Wilt thou saye vnto God: The thinge that I take in honde, is perfecte, & I am clene in thy sight?