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the impious shal decay, and escape shal faile them, and their hope the abomination of the soule.

CHAP. XII.

Iob sheweth the knowlege, which his freinds much boast of, to be the common knowen doctrin of Gods seruants. He more truly, and more profoundly discourseth of Gods power and wisdome, stil defending his owne innocencie in respect of great sinnes.

BVT Iob answering, said: 2Are you then men alone, & shal wisedome die with you? 3I also haue a hart euen as you, neither am I inferiour to you: for who is ignorant of these things, which you know? 4He that is mocked of his freind as I, shal inuocate God, and he wil heare him: for the [1] simplicitie of the iust man is scorned. 5The lampe contemned in the cogitations of the riche, is prepared to the time appointed. 6The tabernacles of robbers abound, and they prouoke God boldly, wheras he hath giuen al things into their hands. 7For aske the beasts, and they shal teach thee: and the foules of the ayre, and they shal tel thee. 8Speake to the earth, and it shal answer thee, and the fishes of the sea shal tel. 9Who is ignorant that the hand of our Lord hath made al these things? 10In whose hand is the soule of euerie liuing thing, and the spirit of al the flesh of man. 11Doth not the eare discerne words, and the iawes of him that eateth, the tast? 12In the ancients is wisedom, and in long time prudence. 13With him is wisedom and strength, he hath counsel and vnderstanding. 14If he shal destroy, there is no man that can build: if he shut vp a man, there is none that can open. 15If he hold in the waters, al things shal be dried: and if he send them forth, they shal ouerthrow the earth. 16With him is strength and wisedom: he knoweth both the deceiuer, and him that is deceiued. 17He bringeth [2] counselers to a foolish end, & iudges to astonishment. 18He looseth the belt of Kings, & girdeth their reines with a corde. 19He leadeth away Priests without glorie, & supplanteth the great men. 20Changing the lippe of the true, and taking away the doctrine of the ancients. 21He powreth out contempt vpon Princes, relieuing them that had been oppressed. 22Who reueileth profound things out of darkenesse, and bringeth forth the shadow of death into light. 23Who multiplieth nations, & destroyeth them, and restoreth the destroyed whole agayne. 24Who changeth the hart of the Princes of the people of the earth, and deceiueth them, that they may goe in vayne where is no passage. 25They shal grope as in the darke, and not in the light, and he shal make them goe amisse as drunken men.

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  1. ↑ God suffereth his simple true-meaning seruants to be scorned for the time, but afterward the wicked shal be forced to confesse, that those whom they derided are worthily in honour before God Sap. 5. v. 3.
  2. ↑ Craftie plotters of deuises at last by Gods iust punishment commit so great absurdities, that the meanest may see their follie.
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