- 1. Bvt Iob answered, and said,
- 2. I haue oft times heard such things: miserable comforters are ye all.
- 3. Shall there be none ende of wordes of winde? or what maketh thee bold so to answere?
- 4. I could also speake as yee doe: (but woulde God your soule were in my soules stead) I could keepe you company in speaking, and could shake mine head at you,
- 5. But I woulde strengthen you with my mouth, and the comfort of my lips should asswage your sorowe.
- 6. Though I speake, my sorow can not be asswaged: though I cease, what release haue I?
- 7. But now hee maketh mee wearie: O God, thou hast made all my congregation desolate,
- 8. And hast made me full of wrinkles which is a witnesse thereof, and my leannes ryseth vp in me, testifying the same in my face.
- 9. His wrath hath torne me, and hee hateth me, and gnasheth vpon mee with his teeth: mine enemie hath sharpened his eyes against me.
- 10. They haue opened their mouthes vpon me, and smitten me on the cheeke in reproch; they gather themselues together against me.
- 11. God hath deliuered me to the vniust, and hath made mee to turne out of the way by the hands of the wicked.
- 12. I was in welth, but he hath brought me to nought: he hath taken me by the necke, and beaten me, and set me as a marke for himselfe.
- 13. His archers compasse mee rounde about: he cutteth my reines, and doth not spare, & powreth my gall vpon the ground.
- 14. He hath broken me with one breaking vpon another, and runneth vpon me like a gyant.
- 15. I haue sowed a sackcloth vpon my skinne, and haue abased mine horne vnto the dust.
- 16. My face is withered with weeping, and the shadow of death is vpon mine eyes,
- 17. Though there be no wickednesse in mine hands, and my prayer be pure.
- 18. O earth, couer not thou my blood, & let my crying finde no place.
- 19. For lo, now my witnesse is in the heauen, and my record is on hie.
- 20. My friends speake eloquently against me: but mine eye powreth out teares vnto God.
- 21. Oh that a man might pleade with God, as man with his neighbour!
- 22. For the yeeres accounted come, and I shal go the way, whence I shall not returne.
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