📖 Job 28
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There are places where syluer is molte, & where golde is tryed:
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where yron is dygged out of the grounde, & stones resolued to metall.
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The darcknes shal once come to an ende, he can seke out the grounde of all thinges: the stones, the darcke, & the horrible shadowe,
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wt the ryuer of water parteth he a sunder the straunge people, yt knoweth no good neghbourheade: soch as are rude, vnmanerly & boysteous.
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He bryngeth foode out of the earth, & yt which is vnder, consumeth he with fyre.
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There is founde a place, whose stones are clene Saphirs, and where ye clottes of the earth are golde.
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There is a waye also that the byrdes knowe not, that no vulturs eye hath sene:
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wherin ye proude & hye mynded walke not, & where no lyon commeth.
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There putteth he his honde vpon the stony rockes, & ouerthroweth the mountaynes.
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Ryuers flowe out of the rockes, & loke what is pleasaunt, his eye seyth it.
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Out of droppes bryngeth he greate floudes together, & the thinge that is hyd bryngeth he to light.
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How commeth a man then by wy?dome? Where is the place that men fynde vnderstondinge?
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Verely no man can tell how worthy a thinge she is, nether is she foude in the lode of the lyuynge.
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The depe sayeth: she is not in me. The see sayeth: she is not with me.
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She can not be gotten for the most fyne golde, nether maye the pryce of her be bought with eny moneye.
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No wedges of golde of Ophir, no precious Onix stones, no Saphirs maye be compared vnto her.
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No, nether golde ner Christall, nether swete odours ner golden plate.
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There is nothinge so worthy, or so excellet, as once to be named vnto her: for parfecte wy?dome goeth farre beyonde the all.
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The Topas that cometh out of Inde, maye in no wyse be lickened vnto her: yee no maner of apparell how pleasaunt and fayre so euer it be.
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From whece then commeth wy?dome? & where is the place of vnderstondinge?
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She is hyd from the eyes of all men, yee & fro the foules of the ayre.
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Destruccion & death saie: we haue herde tell of her wt oure eares.
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But God seyth hir waie, & knoweth hir place.
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For he beholdeth the endes of the worlde, and loketh vpon all that is vnder the heaue.
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When he weyed the wyndes, & measured ye waters:
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when he set the rayne in ordre, and gaue the mightie floudes a lawe:
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Then dyd he se her, the declared he her, prepared her and knewe her.
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And vnto man he sayde: Beholde, to feare the LORDE, is wy?dome: & to forsake euell, is vnderstondinge.