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  • 1. I made a couenaunt with myne eyes: why then should I loke vpon a mayden?
  • 2. For how great a portion shall I haue of God? and what inheritaunce from the almightie on hye?
  • 3. Is not destruction to the wicked? and straunge punishement to the workers of iniquitie?
  • 4. Doth not he see my wayes, and tell all my goynges?
  • 5. If I haue walked in vanitie, or if my feete haue runne to disceaue:
  • 6. Let me be wayed in an euen balaunce, that God may see myne innocencie.
  • 7. If my steppe hath turned out of the way, & myne heart walked after myne eyes, and if any blot haue cleaued to my handes:
  • 8. Then shall I sowe, and an other eate: yea my posteritie shalbe cleane rooted out.
  • 9. If my heart haue ben deceaued by a woman, or if I haue layde wayte at my neyghbours doore:
  • 10. Then let my wife grinde vnto an other man, and let other men lye with her.
  • 11. For this is a wickednesse, and sinne that is worthy to be punished:
  • 12. Yea a fire that vtterly should consume and roote out all my increase.
  • 13. If I euer thought scorne to do right vnto my seruauntes & maydens, when they had any matter against me:
  • 14. When God will sit in iudgement, what shall I do? & when he will visite me, what aunswere shal I geue him?
  • 15. He that fashioned me in my mothers wombe, made he not him also? were we not both shapen a like in our mothers bodies?
  • 16. If I denied the poore of their desire, or haue caused the eyes of the wydow to wayte in vayne:
  • 17. If I haue eaten my morsell alone, that ye fatherlesse hath not eaten therof:
  • 18. (For from my youth it hath growen vp with me as with a father, and from my mothers wombe I haue ben guyde to the [wydowe])
  • 19. If I haue seene any perishe for want of clothing, or any poore for lake of rayment:
  • 20. If his loynes haue not blessed me, because he was warmed with the fleece of my sheepe:
  • 21. If I haue lift vp mine hand against the fatherlesse, when I sawe that I might helpe him in the gate:
  • 22. Then let myne arme fall fro my shoulder, and myne arme holes be broken from the bone.
  • 23. For I haue euer feared the vengeaunce and punishment of God, and [knewe very well that] I was not able to beare his burthen.
  • 24. Haue I put my trust in golde? or haue I sayde to the wedge of golde, thou art my confidence?
  • 25. Haue I reioyced because my power was great, and because my hande gat so much?
  • 26. Dyd I euer greatly regarde the rysing of the sunne? or had I the goyng downe of the moone in great reputation?
  • 27. Hath my heart medled priuyly with any disceite? or did I euer kisse myne owne hande?
  • 28. (That were a wickednesse worthy to be punished: for then shoulde I haue denyed the God that is aboue.)
  • 29. Haue I euer reioyced at the hurt of myne enemie? or was I euer glad that any harme happened vnto him? [Oh, no.]
  • 30. I neuer suffred my mouth to sinne, by wishing a curse to his soule.
  • 31. Dyd not the men of myne owne housholde say, Who shall let vs to haue our belly full of his fleshe?
  • 32. The straunger dyd not lodge in the streete, but I opened my doores vnto him that went by the way.
  • 33. Haue I kept secrete my sinne, and hyd myne iniquitie, as Adam dyd?
  • 34. Though I coulde haue made afeard a great multitude, yet the most contemptible of the families dyd feare me: so I kept scilence, and went not out of the doore.
  • 35. O that I had one which woulde heare me: beholde my signe in the whiche the almightie shal aunswere for me, though he that is my contrarie partie hath written a booke against me.
  • 36. Yet will I take it vpon my shoulder, & as a garlande binde it about my head.
  • 37. I will tell hym the number of my goinges, & go vnto him as to a prince.
  • 38. But if case be that my lande crye against me, or that the forowes thereof make any complaynt:
  • 39. If I haue eaten the fruites therof vnpayed for, yea if I haue greeued the soules of the maisters therof:
  • 40. Then let thystles growe in steede of my wheate, and cockle for my barlye.