📖 Job 4
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Then answered Eliphas of Theman and sayde vnto him:
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Yf we begynne to comon with the, peradueture thou wilt be myscontent, but who can witholde himself from speakynge?
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Beholde, thou hast bene a teacher of many, and hast comforted the weery hondes.
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Thy wordes haue set vp those that were fallen, thou hast refresshed the weake knees.
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But now that the plage is come vpon the, thou shreckest awaye: now that it hath touched thyself, thou art faint harted.
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Where is now thy feare of God, thy stedfastnesse, thy pacience, and the perfectnesse of thy life?
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Considre (I praye the) who euer peryshed, beynge an innocent? Or, when were the godly destroyed?
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As for those that plowe wickednesse (as I haue sene myself) and sowe myschefe, they reape ye same.
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For whe God bloweth vpon them, they perysh, and are destroyed thorow the blast of his wrath.
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The roaringe of the lyon, the cryenge off the lyonesse, & ye teth off ye lyos whelpes are broke.
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The greate lyon perysheth, because he ca get no pray and the lyons whelpes are scatred abrode.
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There is spoken vnto me a thynge in councell, which hath geuen a terrible sounde in myne eare,
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with a vision in the night, when men are fallen a slepe.
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Soch feare and drede came vpo me, that all my bones shoke.
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And when the wynde passed ouer by me, the hayres of my flesh stode vp.
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Then stode there one before me, whose face I knewe not: an ymage there was, and the wether was still, so that I herde this voyce:
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Maye a man be iustified before God? Maye there eny man be iudged to be clene, by reason of his owne workes?
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Beholde, he hath founde vnfaythfulnesse amonge his owne seruauntes, and proude disobedience amonge his angels.
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How moch more the shal they (that dwell in houses of claye, whose foundacion is but earth) be moth eaten?
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They shalbe destroyed from the mornynge vnto the euenynge: yee they shall perish, or euer they be awarre:
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and be taken awaye so clene, that none of the shall remayne, but be deed, or euer they be awarre off it.