that I may speake, what soeuer my minde shal prompt me. 14 ∷[1] Why doe I teare my flesh with my teeth, & carie my soule in my handes? 15Although he shal kil me, I wil ∷[2] trust in him but yet I wil reproue my waies in his sight. 16And he shal be my sauiour: for no hypocrite shal come in his sight. 17Heare ye my word, and receiue the obscure sayings with your eares. 18If I shal be iudged, ∷[3] I know that I shal be found iust. 19What is he that wil be iudged with me? let him come: why am I consumed holding my peace? 20Two things only do not to me, and then shal I not be hid from thy face: 21Make thy hand far from me, and let not thy feare terrifie me. 22Cal me, and I wil answer thee: or els I wil speake, and doe thou answer me. 23How great iniquites and sinnes I haue, my wicked deedes and my offences ∷ shewe thou me. 24Why hidest thou thy face, and thinkest me thine enemy? 25Against the leafe, that is violently taken with the wind, thou shewest thy might, and persecutest drie stuble. 26For thou writest bitternes against me, and wilt consume me with the sinnes of my youth. 27Thou hast put my feete in the stockes, and hast obserued al my pathes, and hast considered the steppes of my feete. 28Who as rottenes am to be consumed, and as a garment, that is eaten of the moth.
Chap. XIIII.
Againe Iob describeth the miseries of mans life. 3. Neuertheles Gods great prouidence towards him. 7. professeth his beleefe of the Resurrection.
MAn borne of ∷[4] woman, liuing a short time, is replenished with many mseiries. 2Who as a flowre cometh forth and is destroyed, & fleeth as a shadow, & neuer abideth in the same state. 3And doest thou counte it a worthy thing to open thine eies vpon such an one, and to bring him with thee into iudgement? 4Who can make cleane him that is conceiued of vncleane seede? is it not thou which onlie art? 5The daies of man are short, & the number of his monethes is with thee, thou hast appointed his limittes ∷ which can not be passed. 6Depart a litle from him, that he may rest, vntil his day wished for, come, euen as the hyred man. 7A tree hath hope: if it be cut, it waxeth greene againe, and the boughes thereof spring. 8If his roote be old in the earth, and the truncke therof be dead in the dust. 9At the sent of water it shal spring, and bring forth leaues, as when it was
- ↑ It semed to his aduersaries that of desperation he would tear his flesh, and so kil himself, and to be so nere death as if one held his soule in his hand readie to let it fal from him.
- ↑ He was in extreme anguish, but stil trusted in God.
- ↑ He denieth that he is guiltie in conscience but desireth to know of God, if he haue anie hid sinnes which himself knoweth not.
- ↑ Al children taking their substance from the mother, and having only a temporal life, continually tending to death, can not but be subiect to manie miseries: For time itselfe though it may seme long, is a limited thing, and is very shorte, yea hath no proportion, in respect of eternitie, which is infinite. yet God hath care to bring this weake creature to life eternal.
