- 1. Iob aunswered, & said:
- 2. Though my talke be this day in bitternesse, and my plague greater then my groning.
- 3. O that I might know him, and finde him, and that I might come before his seate:
- 4. I woulde pleade my cause before hym, and fill my mouth with argumentes:
- 5. I woulde knowe what aunswere he woulde geue me, and vnderstande what he woulde say vnto me.
- 6. Will he pleade against me with his great power? No, but he will make me the stronger.
- 7. There the righteous might dispute with him, so shoulde I be deliuered for euer from my iudge.
- 8. Behold, though I go forwarde I find him not: If I go backwarde, I can get no knowledge of hym:
- 9. If I go on the left side where he doth his worke, I can not attayne vnto him: Againe, if I go on the right side, he hydeth him selfe that I can not see hym.
- 10. But as for my way, he knoweth it, and tryeth me, that as the gold I may come foorth.
- 11. My foote doth kepe his path, his hie way haue I holden, and will not go out of it.
- 12. I will not forsake the commaundement of his lippes, I haue esteemed the wordes of his mouth more then myne appoynted foode.
- 13. He is still at one poynt, and who can turne him? he doth as him listeth, and bringeth to passe what he will.
- 14. He perfourmeth the thing that is appoynted for me, and many such thinges doth he.
- 15. This is the cause that I shrinke at his presence, so that when I consider him, I am afrayde of hym.
- 16. For God maketh my heart softe, and the almightie putteth me in feare.
- 17. Because I am not cut of before the darkenesse, neither hath he couered the cloude fro my face.
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