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- So Iob aunswered, & saide:
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- Then no doubt ye are the men alone, and wysdome shall perishe with you.
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- But I haue vnderstanding aswell as ye, and am not inferior to you: Yea who knoweth not these thinges?
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- I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth vpon God, & he heareth him: The iust & the vpright is laughed to scorne.
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- Being as alight despised in the heartes of the riche, and as one redy to fall.
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- The houses of robbers are in wealth and prosperitie, and they that maliciouslie meddle against God dwell without care, in those thinges that God hath geuen richely with his hande.
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- Aske the cattaile, and they shall enfourme thee: the foules of the ayre, and they shall tell thee.
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- Or the encrease of the earth, and it shall shew thee: or the fishes of the sea, and they shall certifie thee.
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- What is he but he knoweth that the hande of the Lorde made all these?
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- In whose hande is the soule of euery liuing thing, and the breath of all mankinde.
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- Haue not the eares pleasure in hearing?
and the mouth in tasting the thing that it eateth?
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- Among olde persons there is wysedome, and in age is vnderstanding.
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- Yea, with [God] is wysdome and strength, it is he that hath counsell and foreknowledge.
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- Beholde if he breake downe a thing, who can set it vp againe?
yf he shut a thing, who wyll open it?
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- Beholde, if he withholde the waters, they drye vp: yf he let them go, they destroy the earth.
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- With him is strength and wysdome: both the deceauer and he that is deceaued are his.
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- He carieth away the wyse men as it were a spoyle, and bringeth the iudges out of their wittes.
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- He taketh away the subiection of the people from their kinges, and girdeth their loynes with a bonde.
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- He leadeth away the great men into captiuitie, and turneth the mightie vpside downe.
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- He stoppeth the mouth of them that speake trueth, & disapoynteth the aged of their reason.
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- He powreth contempt vpon princes, and maketh the strength of the mightie weake.
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- Loke what lyeth hid in darkenesse he declareth it openly, and the very shadowe of death bringeth he to light.
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- He [both] increaseth the people and destroyeth them, he maketh them to multiplie, and diminisheth them.
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- He taketh away the hearte of them that be heades of ye people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in the wildernesse out of the way.
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- They grope in the darke without light, and he maketh them to stacker like a drunken man.
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