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Man that is borne of a woman, hath but a shorte tyme to lyue, and is full of dyuerse miseries.

But as for man, when he is deed, perished and consumed awaye, what becommeth of him?

but when man slepeth, he ryseth not agayne, vntill the heauen perish: he shal not wake vp ner ryse out of his slepe.

Yf thou woldest but call me, I shulde obeie the: only despyse not the worke of thine owne hondes.

Thou hast sealed vp myne offences, as it were in a bagg: but be mercifull vnto my wickednesse.

but thy wickednesse teacheth thy mouth, and so thou hast chosen the a craftie tonge.

What knowest thou, yt we knowe not? What vnderstondest thou, but we can the same?

Dost thou nomore regarde the comforte of God? but thy wicked wordes wil not suffre the.

Therfore shall his dwellynge be in desolate cities, & in houses which no ma inhabiteth, but are become heapes of stones.

I coude speake, as ye do also. But wolde God, that youre soule were in my soules steade: then shulde I heape vp wordes agaynst you, and shake my heade at you.

But what shall I do? For all my wordes, my sorow wil not ceasse: and though I holde my toge, yet wil it not departe fro me.

I was somtyme in wealth, but sodenly hath he brought me to naught. He hath taken me by the neck, he hath rente me, and set me, as it were a marck for him to shute at.

My frendes laugh me to scorne, but myne eye poureth out teares vnto God.

He promiseth his fredes parte of his good, but his owne childre spende it.

But yf ye wil enhaunce yor selues agaynst me, & accuse me to be a wicked personne because of the shame that is come vpon me:

Yee I my self shal beholde him, not with other but with these same eyes. My reynes are consumed within me,

But bewarre of the swearde, for the swearde wylbe avenged of wickednesse, and be sure, that there is a iudgment.

the prayse of the vngodly hath bene shorte, and that the ioye of Ypocrytes continued but ye twincklinge of an eye?

That he fauoureth, that wyll he not forsake, but kepeth it close in his throte.

But laboure shal he, & yet haue nothinge to eate. Greate trauayle shal he make for riches, but he shal not enioye them.