📖 Job 13
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Lo, all this haue I seene with mine eye, heard with mine eare, and vnderstande it.
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What ye knowe, that same do I know also, neither am I inferior vnto you.
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Neuerthelesse, I talke with the almightie, and my desire is to commune with God.
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As for you, ye are workmaisters of lyes, and vnprofitable phisitians altogether.
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Woulde God ye kept your tongue, for then might ye be taken for wise men.
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Now heare my reasoning, and ponder the argument of my lippes.
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Wyll you speake wickedlie for gods defence and talke deceitfully for his cause?
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Wyll ye accept the person of him? or wyll ye contende for God?
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Shall that helpe you when he calleth you to reckening? For as one man mocketh an other, so do ye mocke him.
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He shall punishe you, and reproue you, if ye do secretly accept any person.
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Shall not his excellencie make you afrayde? Shall not his terrible feare fall vpon you?
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Your remembraunce is lyke vnto a sparke, and your bodies lyke the claye.
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Holde your tongues for my sake, that I also may speake, and my sorowe shalbe the lesse.
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Wherefore do I beare my fleshe in my teeth, and put my soule in myne handes?
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Lo, though he slay me, yet wyl I trust in him: but I wyll reproue myne owne wayes in his sight.
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He shalbe my saluation: for there may no hypocrite come before him.
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Heare diligently my wordes, and ponder my sayinges with your eares.
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Beholde, now haue I prepared my iudgement, and knowe that I shalbe founde righteous.
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What is he that wyll go to lawe with me? if I now holde my tongue I dye.
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Neuerthelesse, graunt me two thinges, and then wyll I not hide my selfe from thee:
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Withdrawe thyne hande from me, and let not the fearefull dreade of thee make me afrayde.
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Then call, and I wyll aunswere: or let me speake, and geue me then an aunswere.
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How many are my misdeedes and sinnes? let me knowe my transgressions and offences.
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Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thyne enemie?
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Wylt thou breake a leafe driuen to and fro, and wilt thou pursue the drye stubble?
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For thou layest sharply to my charge, and punishest me for the sinnes of my youth.
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Thou puttest my feete also in the stockes, and lokest narowly vnto all my pathes, and makest the print thereof in the heeles of my feete:
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And I as a rotten thing do consume away, as a garment that is moth eaten.