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me as gold that passeth through the fyre: ¹¹My foote hath folowed his steppes, I haue kept his way, & haue not declined out if it. ¹²From the commandementes of his lippes I haue not departed, and I haue hid the wordes of his mouth in my bosome. ¹³For he is alone, and no man can turne away his cogitation: and whatsoeuer his soule would, that hath he done. ¹⁴And when he shal haue fulfilled his wil in me, manie other things also are at hand wit him. ¹⁵And therfore I am trubled at his face, and considering, him I am made pensife with feare. ¹⁶God hath mollified my hart, and the Omnipotent hath trubled me. ¹⁷For I haue not perished because of the imminent darkenesse, neither hath the mist couered my face.

Chap. XXIIII.

God in his prouidence knoweth when he wil punish the wicked, which his true seruantes know not, much lesse the impious.

TImes are not hid from the Omnipotent: but they ∷^[1] that know him, know not his daies. ²Some haue transferred boundes, spoiled flockes, & fed them. ³They haue driuen away the asse of pupilles, & haue taken away the widowes oxe for a pledge. ⁴They haue subuerted the way of the poore, and haue oppressed together the meeke of the earth. ⁵Others as wilde asses in the deserte goe forth to their worke: watching to the praye, doe prepare bread for their children. ⁶They reape the filde that is not theirs, and gather the grapes of his vineyard, whom by violence they haue oppressed. ⁷They send men away naked, taking away their clothes, which haue no couering in the cold. ⁸Whom the showers of the mountaynes doe wash, and not hauing a couert, they embrace stones. ⁹They did violence spoyling the pupilles, and the common poore people they spoyled. ¹⁰From the naked and them that goe without clothing, and the hungrie they haue taken away the eares of corne. ¹¹They haue rested the noonetide among their heapes, which hauing troden the wine presses are a thirst. ¹²Out of the cities they haue made men to mourne, and the soule of the wounded hath cryed, and God doth not suffer it to passe vnreuenged: ¹³They haue bene ∷^[2] rebellious to the light, they haue not knowen his wayes, neither did they returne by his pathes. ¹⁴At the verie breake of day the murderer ryseth, he killeth the needie, and the poore

man:

1. Gods seruantes know that he wil punish wickednes, but know not when: the wicked presume that he wil neuer punish them.
2. Heretikes doing and teaching against their owne knowlege, are afterward striken with blindnes, that they can not see the truth S. Greg. li. 16. c. 26.