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Though he had plenteousnesse of euerythinge, yet was he poore, & therfore he is but a wretch on euery syde.

They spende their dayes in welthynesse: but sodenly they go downe to hell.

But I knowe what ye thinke, yee and what ye ymagin agaynst me vnrightuously.

Oh no, let him not do so with me. But let hym geue me like power to go to lawe, then am I sure to wynne my matter.

But as for my waye, he knoweth it: & trieth me as ye golde in ye fyre.

I haue not forsaken the comaundemet of his lippes, but loke what he charged me with his mouth, that haue I shutt vp in my herte.

So that when the showers in the mountaynes haue rayned vpon them, & they be all wett, they haue none other sucoure, but to kepe them amonge the rockes.

The whole cite crieth vnto the LORDE with sighinge, the soules of the slayne make their complaynte: But God destroyeth them not for all this,

In the night season they search the houses, and hyde them selues in the daye tyme, but wil not knowe ye light

They are exalted for a litle, but shortly are they gone, brought to extreme pouerte, & take out of the waye: yee & vtterly plucte of as the eares of corne.

But how maye a man copared vnto God, be iustified? Or, how can he be clene, that is borne of a woman?

How moch more the, ma, that is but corrupcion: and the sonne of man, which is but a worme?

This is now a shorte summe of his doynges. But who is able sufficiently to rehearce his workes? Who can perceaue and vnderstonde ye thondre of his power?

he maye well prepare it: but the godly shal put it vpon him, and the innocet shal deale out the money.

But God seyth hir waie, & knoweth hir place.

In tymes past thou didest set me vp an hye, as it were aboue ye winde, but now hast thou geue me a very sore fall.

Now vse not me to do violece vnto the, yt are destroyed allready: but where hurte is done, there vse thei to helpe.

But now. I am a copanyon of dragons, & a felowe of Esiriches.

But seynge that God wil sytt in iudgment, what shal I do? And for so moch as he wil nedes vyset me, what answere shal I geue him?

I haue not suffred a straunger to lye wt out, but opened my dores vnto him.