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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.