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THE BOOK

CHAP. XIX.

Iob lamenteth his freinds crueltie, 6. affirmeth that his so great affliction is not for his sinnes, 25. and comforteth himself with his vndoubted beliefe of the Resurrection.

BVT Iob answering, sayd: 2How long doe you afflict my soule, and weare me with words? 3Behold, ten times you confound me, and are not ashamed oppressing me. 4For although I haue been ignorant, mine ignorance shal be with me. 5But you are set vp against me, & reproue me with my reproches. 6At the least now vnderstand ye, that God hath afflicted me [1] not with equal iudgement, and hath compassed me with his scourges. 7Behold I shal crie suffering violence, and no man wil heare: I shal crie out, and there is none to iudge. 8He hath hedged my path round about and I can not passe, and in my way hath put darkenesse. 9He hath spoiled me of my glorie, and hath taken the crowne from my head. 10He hath destroyed me on euerie side, and I perish, and as it were from a tree plucked hath he taken away my hope. 11His furie is wrath against me, and he hath so accounted me as his enemie. 12His feriants haue come together, and haue made themselues a way by me, and haue besieged my tabernacle round about. 13He hath made my brethren far from me, and my acquaintance as strangers haue departed from me. 14My kinsemen haue forsaken me, and they that knew me haue forgotten me. 15The ghests of my house, and my maydseruants haue counted me an alien, and I haue been as it were a stranger in their eies. 16I called my seruant, and he did not answer me, with mine owne mouth I besought him. 17My wife hath abhorred my breath, and I prayed the children of my wombe. 18Fooles also despised me, and when I was departed from them, they backbited me. 19My counselers sometime haue abhorred me: and he [2] whom I loued most hath turned against me. 20The flesh being consumed, my bone hath cleaued to my skin, and there are left onlie lippes about my teeth. 21Haue mercie vpon me, haue mercie vpon me, at the least you my freinds, because the hand of our Lord hath touched me. 22Why doe you as God persecute me, and are filled with my flesh? 23Who wil grant me that my words may be writen? who wil giue me that they may be drawen in a booke, 24with yron penne, & in plate of leade, or els with stile might be grauen in flint-stone? 25For [3] I know that my Redeemer liueth, & in the last day I shal rise out of the earth. 26And I shal be compassed agayne with my skinne, and in my flesh I shal see God. 27Whom I my self shal see, & mine eies shal behold, & [4] none other: this my hope

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  1. ↑ Blessed Iob (saith S. Gregorie li. 24. c. 16, 17.) looking sincerely on his owne life, saw that his affliction was greater then his sinnes deserued, & in that respect was not equal: yet it was iust, for God being iust giueth a iust reward: a crowne of iustice as S. Paul speaketh of himself (2. Tim. 4.)
  2. ↑ Al refused holie Iob his affliction euen those whom he had loued most who therfore ought most to have loued him againe.
  3. ↑ An expresse profession of his faith of the Resurrection.
  4. ↑ We shal rise againe, not as one tree riseth in place of an other, but the self-same persons, changed in qualities, not in substance.
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