📖 Job 22
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So Eliphas the Themanite gaue answere, & sayde:
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Maye a man be copared vnto God in wy?dome, though he seme to himself, for to be like him?
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What pleasure hath God in yt thou art rightuous? Or what doth it profite him, yt thy waies are perfecte?
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Is he afrayed to reproue the, & to steppe forth wt the in to iudgment?
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Cometh not this for ye greate wickednesse, & for thine vngracious dedes which are innumerable?
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Thou hast take the pledge from thy brethre for naught, & robbed the naked of their clothinge:
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To soch as were weery, hast thou geue no water to drynke, thou hast withdrawe bred fro the hungrie:
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Shulde soch one the as vseth violece, wroge & oppression (doinge all thinges of parcialyte, & hauynge respecte of personnes) dwell in the lode?
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Thou hast sent wyddowes awaye emptie and oppressed the poore fatherlesse.
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Therfore art thou compased aboute with snares on euery syde, & sodely vexed wt feare.
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Shuldest thou the se no darcknesse? Shulde not the water floude runne ouer the?
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Now because yt God is hyer the the heauens, & because thou seist yt the starres are so hye,
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wilt thou therfore saye: Tush, how shulde God knowe? Doth his dominion reach beyonde the cloudes?
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Tush, the cloudes couer him, yt he maye not se, for he dwelleth in heauen.
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Well, thou wilt kepe the olde waye, yt all wicked me haue gone:
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both olde & yonge, whose foundacion is a runnynge water,
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which saye vnto God: go from vs, and after this maner: Tush, what wil the Allmightie do vnto vs?
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where as he (not with stodinge) fylleth their houses wt all good. Which meanynge of the vngodly be farre fro me.
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For wt ioy shal the godly, and with gladnesse shal the innocent se,
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that their increase shal be hewen downe, & their posterite consumed with the fyre.
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Therfore recocile the vnto God, & be content, so shal all thinges prospere wt the right well.
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Receaue the lawe at his mouth, & laye vp his wordes in thine herte.
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For yf thou wilt turne to the Allmightie, thou shalt stonde fast, & all vnrightuousnesse shall be farre from thy dwellinge:
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He shal geue the an haruest, which in plenty & abundaunce shall exceade the dust of the earth, and the golde of Ophir like ryuer stones.
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Yee the Allmightie his owne self shalbe thine haruest, & the heape of thy money.
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Then shalt thou haue thy delyte in the Allmightie, & lift vp thy face vnto God.
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The shalt thou make thy prayer vnto him, & he shal heare the, & thou shalt kepe thy promyses.
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The, loke what thou takest in honde, he shal make it to prospere with the, and the light shall shyne in thy wayes.
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For who so humbleth himself, him shal he set vp: and who so loketh mekely, shalbe healed.
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Yf thou be innocet, he shal saue the: and thorow the vngiltynesse of thyne handes shalt thou be delyuered.