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THE BOOK

CHAP. XIII.

Of their owne words Iob confuteth his aduersaries, that they haue spoken that which they know not: 13. defendeth his owne innocencie: 22. desiring of God, if he be afflicted for secret sinnes, that he may know them.

BEHOLD mine eie hath seene al these things, and mine eare hath heard, and I haue vnderstood euerie thing. 2According to your knowledge I also do know: neither am I inferiour to you. 3But yet I wil speake to the Omnipotent, and I couet to dispute with God. 4First shewing you to be forgers of lying, and mainteyners of peruerse opinions. 5And would God ye would hold your peace, that you might be thought to be wise men. 6Heare ye therfore my correptions, and attend the iudgement of my lips. 7Hath God neede of your lye, that for him you speake guiles? 8Doe you take his person, and doe you endeauour [1] to iudge for God? 9Or shal it please him from whom nothing can be concealed, or shal he be deceiued as a man, with your fraudulent dealings? 10He shal reproue you, because in secrete you take his person. 11Forthwith as he shal moue himself, he shal trouble you: and his terrour shal come violently vpon you. 12Your memorie shal be compared to ashes, and your neckes shal be brought into clay. 13Hold your peace a litle while, that I may speake, whatsoeuer my minde shal prompt me. 14 [2] Why doe I teare my flesh with my teeth, ande carie my soule in my hands? 15Although he shal kil me, I wil [3] 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 iniquities and sinnes I haue, my wicked deeds and my offences [4] 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 stocks, and hast obserued al my

paths.
  1. ↑ Iobs state of sinne or innocencie was best knowen to God, next to his owne conscience, not at al to his aduersaries, that presumed to iudge therof.
  2. ↑ It seemed to his aduersaries that of desperation he would teare his flesh, and so kil himself, and to be so neer death as if one held his soule in his hand readie to let it fal from him.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 He was in extreme anguish, but stil trusted in God.
  4. ↑ He denieth that he is guiltie in conscience but desireth to know of God, if he haue anie hid sinnes which himself knoweth not.
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