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lest ye shulde prayse youre selues, to haue founde out wy?dome: because it is God that hath cast him out, & no man.

The sprete of God hath made me, & the breth of the Allmightie hath geue me my life.

Beholde, before God am I euen as thou, for I am fashioned and made eue of the same moulde.

Beholde, vnto these vnreasonable wordes of thyne wil I make answere. Shulde God be reproued of man?

For whe God doth once commaunde a thinge, there shulde no man be curious, to search whether it be right.

For yf he submitte himself vnto God, he is gracious, & sheweth him his countenaunce ioyfully, & rewardeth man for his rightuousnes.

Lo, thus worketh God allwaie with ma,

And why? Iob hath sayde: I am rightuous, but God doth me wronge.

For he saieth: Though a ma be good, yet is he naught before God.

Therfore herke vnto me, ye yt haue vnderstondinge. Farre be it from God, that he shulde medle with wickednesse: and farre be it from the Allmightie, yt he shulde medle with vnrightuous dealynge:

For sure it is, that God codemneth no man wrongeously, and the iudgmet of the Allmightie is not vnrightuous.

For no ma shalbe suffred to go into iudgment with God.

For so moch then as I haue begonne to talke of God, I wil not hyndre the.

yee aboue his synnes he hath blasphemed, which offence he hath done euen before vs, in yt he stryueth agaynst God with his wordes.

Thinkest thou it right that thou sayest: I am rightuous before God

For soch one neuer sayeth: Where is God that made me? ad yt shyneth vpon vs, that we might prayse him in the night?

But yf a man call vpon God, doth not he heare him? Doth not the Almightie accepte his crie?

Beholde, God casteth not awaye ye mightie, for he himselff is mightie in power and wisdome.

Hath God ordened then, that the glorious life off the & all soch mightie men shulde not be put downe?

Beholde, God is of a mightie hye power: Where is there soch a gyde and lawegeuer as he?