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¹ O how louynge is God vnto Israel, to soch as are of a clene hert?² Neuerthelesse my fete were allmost gone, my treadinges had wel nye slipte.³ And why. I was greued at ye wicked, to se the vngodly in soch prosperite.⁴ For they are in no parell of death, but stonde fast like a palace.⁵ They come in no misfortune like other folke, nether are they plaged like other men.⁶ And this is the cause that they be so puft vp in pryde, & ouerwhelmed with cruelte and vnrigthuousnesse.⁷ Their eyes swell for fatnesse, they do euen what they lyst.⁸ Corrupte are they, and speake blasphemies maliciously, proude and presumptuous are their wordes.⁹ They stretch forth their mouth vnto the heauen, & their tonge goeth thorow the worlde.¹⁰ Therfore fall the people vnto them, and there out sucke they no small auauntage.¹¹ Tush (saye they) how shulde God perceaue it? is there knowlege in the most hyest?¹² Lo, these are the vngodly, these prospere in the worlde, these haue riches in possession. ¹³ Shulde I then clense my hert in vayne (thought I) & wash my hondes in innocency?¹⁴ Wherfore shulde I be then punyshed daylie, & be chastened euery mornynge?

¹⁵ Yee I had allmost also sayde euen as they: but lo, then shulde I haue condemned the generacion of thy children.¹⁶ Then thought I to vnderstonde this, but it was to harde for me.¹⁷ Vntill I wete in to ye Sanctuary of God, & considered the ende of these men.¹⁸ Namely, how thou hast set the in a slippery place, that thou maiest cast the downe headlynges & destroye the.¹⁹ O how sodenly do they consume, perish, & come to a fearfull ende?²⁰ Yee euen like as a dreame when one awaketh, so makest thou their ymage to vanish out of the cite.

²¹ Thus my hert was greued, & it wente euen thorow my reynes.²² So foolish was I and ignoraunt, and as it were a beest before the.²³ Neuerthelesse, I am allwaye by the, thou holdest me by my right hande.²⁴ Thou ledest me with thy coucel, and afterwarde receauest me vnto glory.²⁵ O what is there prepared for me in heauen? there is nothinge vpo earth, that I desyre in comparison of the.²⁶ My flesh and my herte fayleth, but God is the strength of my hert, and my porcion for euer.²⁷ For lo, they that forsake the, shal perishe, thou destroyest all them that committe fornicacion agaynst the.²⁸ But it is good for me, to holde me fast by God, to put my trust in the LORDE God, and to speake of all thy workes.