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(for they were so aba?shed, that they coude not make answere, ner speake one worde)

but in so moch as ye wil not speake, stondinge still like dom men & makinge no answere:

so that his life maye awaye wt no bred, & his soule abhorreth to eate eny dayntie meate:

In so moch, that his body is clene consumed awaye, & his bones appeare nomore.

Yf thou hast nothinge, then heare me, and holde thy tonge, so shal I teach the wy?dome.

For like as the mouth tasteth the meates, so the eare proueth & discerneth the wordes.

In so moch that they haue caused ye voyce of the poore to come vnto him, & now he heareth the coplaynte of soch as are in necessite.

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

Seinge thou sayest so, how doest thou knowe it? What thinge hast thou more excellet, the I yt am a synner?

Therfore hath Iob opened his mouth but in vayne, ad folishly hath he made so many wordes.

He turneth not his eyes awaye from the rightuous he setteth vp kynges in their Trone, and cofirmeth them, so that they allwaye syt therin.

Euen so shall he kepe the (yf thou wilt be content) from the bottomlesse pytte that is beneth: & yf thou wilt holde the quyete, he shal fyll thy table with plenteousnesse.

Beholde, so greate is God, that he passeth oure knowlege, nether are we able to come to ye experiece of his yeares.

together for to rayne, so that they poure downe and droppe vpon men.

He distributeth also on euery syde, acordinge as it pleaseth him to deale out his workes, that they maye do, what so euer he commaundeth the thorow the whole worlde:

Wyll the vnicorne be so tame as to do ye seruyce, or to abyde still by thy cribbe?

and forgetteth them: so that they might be troden with fete, or broken with somme wilde beast.

So harde is he vnto his yong ones, as though they were not his, and laboureth in vayne without eny feare.

There darre none be so bolde, as to rayse him vp. Who is able to stonde before me?

One is so ioyned to another, that no ayre can come in: