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For in so moch as he is God, he maketh my herte soft: and seynge that he is Allmightie, he putteth me in feare.

Thus can not I get out of darcknesse, the cloude hath so couered my face.

They are the cause yt so many men are naked and bare, hauynge no clothes to couer them and kepe them from colde:

So that when the showers in the mountaynes haue rayned vpon them, & they be all wett, they haue none other sucoure, but to kepe them amonge the rockes.

In so moch that they let them go naked without clothinge, and yet the hungrie beare the sheeues.

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.

Is it not so? Who wil the reproue me as a lyar, & saye yt my wordes are nothinge worth?

Where is ye coucell yt thou shuldest geue him, which hath no wy?dome? Wilt thou so shewe thine excellent rightuousnes?

There is nothinge so worthy, or so excellet, as once to be named vnto her: for parfecte wy?dome goeth farre beyonde the all.

The Topas that cometh out of Inde, maye in no wyse be lickened vnto her: yee no maner of apparell how pleasaunt and fayre so euer it be.

So Iob proceaded and wete forth in his communicacion, sayenge:

Yf I had spoken, they wolde haue it none other wayes, my wordes were so well taken amonge the.

& my path haue they clene marred. It was so easy for them to do me harme, that they neded no man to helpe the.

Yf so be that I haue withdrawen my fote out of the right waye, yf my hert hath folowed myne eyesight, yf I haue stayned or defyled my hodes:

But seynge that God wil sytt in iudgment, what shal I do? And for so moch as he wil nedes vyset me, what answere shal I geue him?

Haue I reioysed because my substaunce was greate, and because my honde gat so moch?

So these thre men wolde stryue nomore wt Iob, because he helde himself a rightuous man.

So when Eliu ye sonne of Barachel ye Bussite sawe, that these thre men were not able to make Iob answere, he was myscontent:

so that he gaue answere himself, and sayde: Considerinve yt I am yonge, & ye be men of age, I was afrayed, & durst not shewe forth my mynde,

Therfore wil I speake also (in so farre as I maye be herde) & wil shewe yow myne opinyon.