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[1]Iob aunswered, & said
[2]Though my talke be this day in bitternesse, and my plague greater then my groning
[3]O that I might know him, and finde him, and that I might come before his seate
[4]I woulde pleade my cause before hym, and fill my mouth with argumentes
[5]I woulde knowe what aunswere he woulde geue me, and vnderstande what he woulde say vnto me
[6]Will he pleade against me with his great power? No, but he will make me the stronger
[7]There the righteous might dispute with him, so shoulde I be deliuered for euer from my iudge
[8]Behold, though I go forwarde I find him not: If I go backwarde, I can get no knowledge of hym
[9]If I go on the left side where he doth his worke, I can not attayne vnto him: Againe, if I go on the right side, he hydeth him selfe that I can not see hym
[10]But as for my way, he knoweth it, and tryeth me, that as the gold I may come foorth
[11]My foote doth kepe his path, his hie way haue I holden, and will not go out of it
[12]I will not forsake the commaundement of his lippes, I haue esteemed the wordes of his mouth more then myne appoynted foode
[13]He is still at one poynt, and who can turne him? he doth as him listeth, and bringeth to passe what he will
[14]He perfourmeth the thing that is appoynted for me, and many such thinges doth he
[15]This is the cause that I shrinke at his presence, so that when I consider him, I am afrayde of hym
[16]For God maketh my heart softe, and the almightie putteth me in feare
[17]Because I am not cut of before the darkenesse, neither hath he couered the cloude fro my face
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