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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.