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

when God sendeth out his voyce: greate thinges doth he, which we can not coprehende.

At the breth of God, the frost commeth, & the waters are shed abrode.

Herken vnto this (o Iob) stonde still, and considre the wonderous workes of God.

Art thou of coucel with God, when he doth these thinges? When he causeth the light to come forth of his cloudes?

Golde is brought out of the north, but the prayse and honoure off Gods feare commeth fro God himself.

where wast thou when the mornynge starres gaue me prayse, ad when all the angels of God reioysed?

who prouydeth meate for the rauen, whe his yonge ones crie vnto God, ad fle aboute for want of meate?

And that because God hath taken wisdome from him, & hath not geuen him vnderstondinge.

Morouer, God spake vnto Iob and sayde:

Can he that stryueth with the Allmightie, be at rest? Shulde not he which disputeth with God, geue him an answere?

Is thine arme then like the arme of God? Maketh thy voyce soch a soude as his doth?

First when God made him, he ordened the wyldernesse for him,

Yee many one there be that saye off my soule: there is no helpe for him in God.

Vp LORDE, and helpe me, o my God: for thou smytest all myne enemies vpon the cheke bones, and breakest the teth of the vngodly.

Heare me whe I cal, o God of my rightuousnes, thou that comfortest me in my trouble: haue mercy vpon me, and herken vnto my prayer.

O marke the voyce of my peticion, my kynge & my God: for vnto the wil I make my prayer.

For thou art not the God yt hath pleasure in wickednesse, there maye no vngodly personne dwel with the.

Punysh them (o God) that they maye perish in their owne ymaginacions: cast them out because of the multitude of their vngodlinesse, for they rebell agaynst the.

O Lorde my God, in ye do I trust: saue me fro all the yt persecute me, & delyuer me.