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¹ Eliu spake morouer, and sayde:² Thinkest thou it right that thou sayest: I am rightuous before God³ Seinge thou sayest so, how doest thou knowe it? What thinge hast thou more excellet, the I yt am a synner?⁴ Therfore will I geue answere vnto the & thy frendes:⁵ loke vnto the heaue, & beholde it: cosidre ye cloudes, how they are hyer then thou.⁶ Yf thou synnest, what dost thou vnto him? Yf thine offences be many, how gettest thou his fauoure?⁷ Yf thou be rightuous, what geuest thou him? Or, what receaueth he of thy handes?⁸ Of soch an vngodly personne as thou, & of ye sonne of man that is rightuous as thou pretendest to be:

⁹ there is a greate crie & coplaynte made by the that are oppressed with violence, yee eueryman complayneth vpon the cruell arme of tyrauntes.¹⁰ For soch one neuer sayeth: Where is God that made me? ad yt shyneth vpon vs, that we might prayse him in the night?¹¹ Which geueth vs more vnderstodinge then he doth the beastes of the earth, and teacheth vs more then the foules off heaue.¹² Yf eny soch complayne, no ma geueth answere, and yt because of the wickednesse off proude tyrauntes.¹³ But yf a man call vpon God, doth not he heare him? Doth not the Almightie accepte his crie?

¹⁴ Wha thou speakest then, shulde not he pardon the, yff thou open thyself before him, and put thy trust in him?¹⁵ Then vseth he no violence in his wrath nether hath he pleasure in curious and depe inquisicions.¹⁶ Therfore hath Iob opened his mouth but in vayne, ad folishly hath he made so many wordes.