didst not spare the offender. 29But if so also I am impious, why haue I laboured in vayne? 30If I be washed as it were with snow-waters, & my handes shal shine as most cleane: 31Yet shal thou dippe me in filth, and my garments shal abhorre me. 32For neither I wil answer a man that is like my self: nor that may be heard with me equally in iudgement. 33There is none that may be able to reproue both, and to put his hand betwen both. 34Let him take his rod from me, and let not his dread terrifie me. 35I wil speake, and wil not feare him: for I can not answer fearing.
CHAP. X.
MY soule is wearie of my life, I wil let my speach passe agaynst my self. I wil speake in the bitternes of my soule. 2I wil say to God: Condemne me not: tel me why thou iudgest me so. 3Doth it seeme good to thee, if thou [1] calumniate me, and oppresse me the worke of thy hands, and helpe the counsel of the impious? 4Hast thou eies of flesh: or as a man seeth, shalt thou also see? 5Are thy daies as the daies of man, and are thy yeares as the times of men: 6That thou seekest my iniquitie, and searchest my sinne? 7And thou mayst know that I haue done no impious thing, whereas there is no man that can deliuer out of thy hand. 8 [2] Thy hands haue made me, & framed me wholly round-about, & dost thou so sodainlie cast me downe headlong? 9Remember I besech thee that as clay thou madest me, & into dust thou wilt bring me agayne. 10Hast thou not as milke milked me, and curded me as cheese? 11With skinne & flesh thou hast clothed me: with bones & sinowes thou hast compacted me. 12Life and mercie thou hast giuen to me, and thy visitation hath kept my spirit. 13Although thou conceale these things in thy hart, yet I know that thou remembrest al things. 14If I haue sinned and thou hast spared me for an houre: why doest thou not suffer me to be clean 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 against me, & 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 con-
- ↑ Holie Iob knowing it to be unpossible that God calumniateth anie man, inquireth what is the cause why his goodnes afflicteth the iust.
- ↑ In that I am thy creature thou maist iustly destroy me but indeed because I am thy creature thou wilt spare me: through thy mercy, giuing me thy grace, which if I vse wel thou wilt also giue me eternal rest.
