📖 Job 6
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Iob answered, and sayde:
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O that my misery weere weyed, and my punyshment layed in the balaunces:
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for then shulde it be heuyer, then the sonde of the see. This is the cause, that my wordes are so soroufull.
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For the allmighty hath shott at me with his arowes, whose indignacion hath droncke vp my sprete, and ye terrible feares of God fight agaysnt me.
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Doth the wilde asse roare when he hath grasse? Or crieth the oxe, whe he hath fodder ynough?
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Maye a thynge be eaten vnseasoned, or without salt? What taist hath ye whyte within the yoke an egg?
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The thinges that sometyme I might not awaye withall, are now my meate for very sorow.
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O that I might haue my desyre: O yt God wolde graunte me the thynge, that I longe for:
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That he wolde begynne and smyte me: that he wolde let his honde go, & hew me downe.
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The shulde I haue some coforte: yee I wolde desyre him in my payne, that he shulde not spare, for I will not be agaynst ye wordes of the holy one.
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What power haue I to endure? Or? what is myne ende, that my soule might be paciet?
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Is my strength the strength of stones? Or, is my flesh made of brasse?
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Am I able to helpe my self? Is not my strength gone fro me,
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like as yf one withdrewe a good dede from his frende, and forsoke the feare of God?
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Myne owne brethren passe ouer by me as the waterbroke, that hastely runneth thorow ye valleys.
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But they that feare the horefrost, the snowe shal fall vpon them.
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When their tyme cometh, they shalbe destroyed and perishe: and when they be set on fyre, they shalbe remoued out of their place,
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for the pathes yt they go in, are croked: they haist after vayne thinges, and shal perish.
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Considre the pathes off Theman, & the wayes off Saba, wherin they haue put their trust.
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Confounded are they, that put eny cofidence in them: For whe they came to opteyne the thynges that they loked for, they were brought to confucion.
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Eue so are ye also come vnto me: but now that ye se my mysery, ye are afrayed.
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Dyd I desyre you, to come hyther? Or, to geue me eny off youre substaunce?
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To delyuer me me from the enemies honde, or to saue me from the powers off the mightie?
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Teach me and I will holde my tonge: and yf I do erre, shewe me wherin.
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Wherfore blame ye then the wordes, that are well and truly spoken?
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which of you can reproue them? Sauynge only that ye are sotyll to check mens sayenges, and can speake many wordes in the wynde.
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Ye fall vpon the fatherlesse, ad go aboute to ouerthrowe youre owne frende.
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Wherfore loke not only vpon me, but vpon youre selues: whether I lye, or no.
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Turne into youre owne selues (I praye you) be indifferent iudges, and considre myne vngyltinesse:
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whether there be eny vnrightuousnesse in my tonge, or vayne wordes in my mouth.