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not their exaltation cut downe, and hath not fire deuoured the remnants of them? ²¹Agree thou therfore to him, and haue peace: and by these things thou shalt haue the best fruits. ²²Receiue the law of his mouth, and put his words in thy hart. ²³If thou wilt returne to the Omnipotent, thou shalt be builded vp, and shalt make iniquitie far from thy tabernacle. ²⁴He shal giue for earth flint, and for flint torrents of gold. ²⁵And the Omnipotent shal be agaynst thine enemies, and siluer shal be heaped together vnto thee. ²⁶Then shalt thou abound in delights vpon the Omnipotent, and shalt lift vp thy face to God. ²⁷Thou shalt aske him, and he wil heare thee, and thou shal pay thy vowes. ²⁸Thou shalt decree a thing, and it shal come to thee, and light shal shine in thy waies ²⁹For who wil be humbled, shal be in glorie: and he that wil bow downe his eies, he shal be saued. ³⁰The innocent shal be saued, but he shal be saued in the cleannesse of his hands.

 

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CHAP. XXIII.

 

Iob expecteth helpe and sentence of God, 6. with iust feare, yet with good conscience maintaineth his owne innocencie.

 

BVT Iob answering, sayd: ^{2 [1]} Now also my talke is in bitternesse, and the hand of my plague is aggrauated vpon my mourning. ³Who wil grant me that I may know and find him, & come euen to ^[2] his throne? ⁴I wil set iudgement before him, and wil fil my mouth with accusations. ⁵That I may know the words that he wil answer me, and vnderstand what he wil speake to me. ⁶I wil not that he contend with me with much strength, nor that he oppresse me with the weight of his greatnes. ⁷Let him propose equitie against me, and my iudgement shal come to victorie. ⁸If I shal goe to the East, he appeareth not: if to the West, I shal not vnderstand him. ⁹If to the left hand, what shal I doe? I shal not apprehend him: if I turne myself to the right hand, I shal not see him. ¹⁰But he knoweth my way, and hath proued me as gold that passeth through the fyre: ¹¹My foote hath folowed his steps, I haue kept his way, & haue not declined out if it. ¹²From the commandements of his lips I haue not departed, and I haue hid the words 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 with him. ¹⁵And therfore I am troubled at his face, and considering him I am made pensiue with feare. ¹⁶God hath mollified my hart, and the Omnipotent hath

1. Whiles he expected some comfort of his freinds, they stil afflicted him more & more, charging him with false crimes & so aggrauating his grief both of bodie and mind.
2. Therefore he appealeth to Gods iudgement seate for sentence.