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As for mee, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?

Marke mee, and be astonished, and lay your hand vpon your mouth.

Euen when I remember, I am afraid, and trembling taketh holde on my flesh.

Wherefore doe the wicked liue, become old, yea, are mightie in power?

Their seede is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.

Their houses are safe from feare, neither is the rod of God vpon them.

Their bull gendreth and faileth not, their cow calueth, and casteth not her calfe.

They send foorth their little ones like a flocke, and their children dance.

They take the timbrell and harpe, and reioyce at the sound of the organe.

They spend their daies in wealth, and in a moment goe downe to the graue.

Therefore they say vnto God, Depart from vs: for we desire not the knowledge of thy wayes.

What is the Almightie, that wee should serue him? and what profite should we haue, if we pray vnto him?

Loe, their good is not in their hand, the counsell of the wicked is farre from me.

How oft is the candle of the wicked put out? and how oft commeth their destruction vpon them? God distributeth sorrowes in his anger.

They are as stubble before the winde, and as chaffe that the storme carieth away.