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But they that feare the horefrost, the snowe shal fall vpon them.

Eue so are ye also come vnto me: but now that ye se my mysery, ye are afrayed.

Wherfore loke not only vpon me, but vpon youre selues: whether I lye, or no.

Euen so haue I laboured whole monethes longe (but in vayne) and many a carefull night haue I tolde.

O remembre, that my life is but a wynde, ad that myne eye shal nomore se the pleasures

Therfore I will not spare my mouth, but will speake in the trouble of my sprete, in ye bytternesse of my mynde will I talke.

I can se no remedy, I shall lyue nomore: O spare me then, for my dayes are but vayne

Namely, yt we are but of yesterdaye, and considre not, that oure dayes vpon earth are buth a very shadow.

No: but (or euer it be shot forth, and or euer it be gathered) it wythereth, before eny other herbe.

He leeneth him vpo his house, but he shal not stonde: he holdeth him fast by it, yet shal he not endure.

But yf it be taken out off his place, euery man denyeth it, sayenge: I knowe the not.

He is God, whose wrath no man maye with stode: but the proudest of all must stoupe vnder him.

Yee though I be rightuous, yet will I not geue him one worde agayne, but mekely submytte my self to my iudge.

He will not let my sprete be in rest, but fylleth me wt bytternesse.

As for the worlde, he geueth it ouer in to the power of the wicked, soch as the rulers be, wherof all londes are full. Is it not so? where is there eny, but he is soch one?

and will saye vnto God: O do not condemne me, but shewe me the cause, wherfore thou iudgest me on this maner.

yee into that darck clowdy londe & deadly shadowe, where as is no ordre, but terrible feare as in the darcknesse.

But I haue vnderstodinge as well as ye, and am no lesse then ye. Yee who knoweth not these thinges?

What is he, but he knoweth, that ye hode of the LORDE made all these?

Lo, there is nether coforte ner hope for me, yf he wil slaye me. But yf I shewe and reproue myne owne wayes in his sight,