📖 Job 15
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Then answered Eliphas the Themanite, and sayde:
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Shulde a wyse man geue soch an answere (as it were one that spake in the wynde) and fyll his stomacke with anger?
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Thou reprouest wt wordes, that are nothinge wroth: and speakest the thinges, which can do no good.
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As for shame, thou hast set it asyde, els woldest thou not make so many wordes before God:
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but thy wickednesse teacheth thy mouth, and so thou hast chosen the a craftie tonge.
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Thine owne mouth condemneth the, and not I: yee thine owne lippes shappe the an answere.
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Art thou the first man, that euer was borne? Or, wast thou made before the hylles?
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hast thou herde the secrete councell of God, that all wy?dome is to litle for ye?
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What knowest thou, yt we knowe not? What vnderstondest thou, but we can the same?
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With vs are olde and aged men, yee soch as haue lyued longer then thy forefathers.
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Dost thou nomore regarde the comforte of God? but thy wicked wordes wil not suffre the.
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Why doth thine herte make the so proude? Why stondest thou so greatly in thine owne conceate? Where vnto loke thine eyes,
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yt thy mynde is so puft vp agaynst God & lettest soch wordes go out of thy mouth?
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What is man, that he shulde be vncleane? what hath he (which is borne of a woman) wherby he might be knowne to be rightuous?
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Beholde, he hath founde vnfaithfulnesse amoge his owne sanctes: yee the very heauens are vnclene in his sight.
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How moch more then an abhominable and vyle ma, which dryncketh wickednesse like water?
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I will tell the, heare me: I wil shewe the a thinge, that I knowe:
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which wyse men haue tolde, & hath not bene hyd from their fathers:
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vnto whom only the londe was geuen, that no straunger shulde come amonge them.
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The vngodly despayreth all the dayes of his life, & the nombre of a tyrauntes yeares is vnknowne.
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A fearfull sounde is euer in his eares, & when it is peace, yet feareth he destruccion:
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He beleueth neuer to be delyuered out of darcknesse, the swearde is allwaye before his eyes.
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When he goeth forth to get his lyuinge, he thinketh planely, that the daye of darcknesse is at honde.
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Sorow and carefulnesse make him afrayed, & copasse him rounde aboute, like as it were a kinge with his hoost redy to the battayll.
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For he hath stretched out his honde agaynst God, & armed himself agaynst ye Allmightie.
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He runneth proudly vpon him, & with a stiff necke fighteth he agaynst him:
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where as he couereth his face with fatnesse, and maketh his body well lykynge.
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Therfore shall his dwellynge be in desolate cities, & in houses which no ma inhabiteth, but are become heapes of stones.
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He shall not be rich, nether shall his substaunce continue, ner encrease vpon earth.
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He shal neuer come out of darcknesse, the flame shal drye vp his braunches, with ye blast of the mouth of God shal he be take awaie.
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He wil nether applye himself to faithfulnes ner treuth, so sore is he disceaued wt vanite.
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He shall perish, afore his tyme be worne out, and his honde shal not be grene.
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He shalbe pluckte of as an vntymely grape from ye vyne, and shal let his floure fall, as the olyue doth.
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For the congregacion of Ypocrites is vnfrutefull, & the fyre shal consume the houses of soch, as are gredy to receaue giftes.
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He conceaueth trauayle, he beareth myschefe, & his body bryngeth forth disceate.