thy visitation hath kept my spirit. 13Although thou conceale these thinges in thy hart, yet I know that thou remembrest al thinges. 14If I haue sinned and thou hast spared me for an houre: why doest thou not suffer me to be cleane from mine iniquitie? 15And if I shal be impious, woe is to me: and if iust, I shal not lift vp my head, filled with affliction and miserie. 16And for pride as a lionesse thou wilt take me, and returning thou doest meruelously torment me. 17Thou renewest thy witnesses agaynst me, and multipliest thy wrath toward me, and paynes doe warre vpon me. 18Why didst thou bring me forth out of the matrice? Who would God, I had beene consumed that eye might not see me. 19I had beene as if I were not, caried from the wombe to the graue. 20Shal not the fewnes of my daies be ended shortly? suffer me ∷[1] therfore, that I may a litle lament my sorow: 21Before I goe, and returne not, vnto the darke land, that is couered with the mist of death: 22A land of miserie and darkenesse, where is the shadow of death, and no order, but euerlasting horrour inhabiteth.
Chap. XI.
Sophar imputeth Iobs discourse, about the cause of his so great afflictions, to insolencie of mind, and loquasitie of tongue, perswading him to acknowlege greuous sinnes, that so he may haue the reward of a iust man.
BUt Sophar the Naamathite answering, said: 2Why, shal he that speaketh manie thinges, not heare also? or ∷[2] shal a man ful of wordes be iustified? 3To thee onlie shal men hold their peace? and when thou hast mocked others, shalt thou be confuted of none? 4For thou hast sayd: My word is pure, and I am cleane in thy sight. 5And I would wish that God would speake with thee, and would open his lippes to thee, 6That he might shew thee the secretes of wisdom, and that his law is manifold, and thou mightest vnderstand that thou art exacted much lesser thinges of him, ∷[3] then thy iniquitie deserueth. 7Peraduenture thou wilt comprehend the steppes of God, and wil find out the Omnipotent perfectly? 8He is higher then heauen, and what wilt thou doe: deeper then hel, and how wilt thou know? 9The measure of him is longer then the earth, and broder then the sea. 10If he shal ouerthrow al things, or shal strayten them into one, who shal say against him? 11For he knoweth the vanitie of men, & seing ini-
- ↑ Repentance is alwayes necessarie but most especially at the houre of death.
- ↑ Sophar might haue applied the vice of much speaking to himself, and his felowes, alleaging manie thinges, which proued not their opinion, wheras Iobs allegations proue directly that which he affirmed.
- ↑ Iobs owne conscience affirmed the contrarie. c. 6. v. 3.
