- 1. Iob aunswered, & saide:
- 2. I haue oft times heard such thinges: miserable geuers of comfort are ye all the sort of you.
- 3. Shall not vaine wordes come yet to an ende? Or what maketh thee bolde so to aunswere?
- 4. I coulde speake as ye do also: but would God that your soule were in my soules steade, then could I frame wordes for you, and shake my head at you:
- 5. I shoulde comfort you with my mouth, & releasse your paine with the talking of my lippes.
- 6. For all my wordes my sorowe wyll not ceasse: And though I holde my tongue, what am I eased?
- 7. But now that [God] hath sent me aduersitie, thou hast troubled al my congregation.
- 8. And that thou hast filled me with wrinckles my fleshe is recorde, and my leanenesse ryseth vp against me and beareth witnes thereof in my face.
- 9. His wrath hath torne [me] he hateth me, & gnasheth vpon me with his teeth: myne enemie loketh fiercely vpon me with his eyes.
- 10. They haue opened their mouthes wide vpon me, and smitten me vpon the cheeke dispitefully, they gather the selues together against me.
- 11. God hath shut me vp with the vngodly, and deliuered me into the handes of the wicked.
- 12. I was in wealth, but he hath brought me to nought: he hath taken me by the necke, he hath all to shaken me, and set me as a marke for him selfe.
- 13. His archers compasse me rounde about, he woundeth my raines, and doth not spare, my bowels hath he powred vpon the grounde.
- 14. He hath geuen me one wounde vpon an other, and is fallen vpon me lyke a giaunt.
- 15. I haue sowed a sackecloth vpon my skinne, and wallowed my head in the dust.
- 16. My face is withered with weeping, & in mine eyes is the shadowe of death.
- 17. Howbeit there is no wickednesse in my handes, but my prayer is cleane.
- 18. O earth couer not thou my blood, and let my crying finde no roome.
- 19. For lo, my witnesse is in heauen, and he that knoweth me, is in the height.
- 20. My friendes geue me many wordes to scorne, and myne eye powreth out teares vnto God.
- 21. O that a body might pleate with God, as one man doth with an other:
- 22. Yet the number of my yeres is come, and the way that I must go is at hand, from whence I shall not turne againe.
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