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- Elihu also proceeded, and saide:
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- Holde thee still a litle, & I shall shew thee what I haue yet to speake on gods behalfe.
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- I wyll open vnto thee yet farre higher knowledge, and wil ascribe righteousnesse vnto my maker.
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- And truely my wordes shall not be vaine, seeing he is with thee that is perfect in knowledge.
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- Beholde, the great God casteth away no man, for he him selfe is mightie in power and wysdome.
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- As for the vngodly he shall not preserue him, but shall helpe the poore to their right.
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- He shal not turne his eyes away from the righteous, but as kinges shal they be in their throne, he shal stablish them for euer, and they shalbe exalted.
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- But if they be layde in chaynes, or bounde with the bondes of trouble,
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- Then wyll he shew them their worke, & their sinnes which haue ouercome them.
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- He with punishing and nurturing of them, roundeth them in the eares, warneth them to leaue of from their wickednesse, and to amende.
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- If they now wyll take heede & serue him, they shal weare out their dayes in prosperitie, and their yeres in pleasure.
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- But if they wil not hearken, they shal go through the sworde, and perishe or euer they be aware.
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- As for hypocrites in heart, they shall heape vp wrath [for them selues] for they call not vpon him, though they be his prisoners.
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- Thus shal their soule perishe in foolishnes, and their lyfe among the fornicatours.
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- The poore shall he deliuer out of his affliction, and rounde them in the eare when they be in trouble.
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- Euen so would he take thee out of the straite place, into a brode place in the which there is no straitnes: yea, & make thy table quiet replenished with fatnesse.
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- Neuerthelesse, thou hast commended the iudgement of the vngodly, and euen such a iudgement & sentence shalt thou suffer.
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- And seeing there is wrath with God, beware lest he take thee away in thy wealth, & all that thou hast to redeeme thee can not deliuer thee.
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- Thinkest thou that he wyll regarde thy riches?
he shall not care for golde, nor for all them that excell in strength.
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- Spend not the night in carefull thoughtes, how he destroyeth some, and bringeth other in their place.
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- But beware that thou turne not aside to wickednesse and sinne, which hitherto thou hast chosen more then affliction.
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- Beholde, God is of a mightie hie power: Where is there such a guide and lawe geuer as he?
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- Who wyll reproue him of his way?
Who wil say vnto him, Thou hast done wrong?
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- Remember that thou do magnifie his worke which men do praise,
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- All men see it, yea men do beholde it a farre of.
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- Beholde, so great is God that he passeth our knowledge, neither can the number of his yeres be searched out.
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- Sometime he restrayneth the rayne, and againe he sendeth rayne by his cloudes:
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- Which rayne the cloudes do droppe, and let fall aboundantly vpon men.
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- Who can consider the spreadinges out of his cloudes, the coueringes of his tabernacle?
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- Behold, he doth stretch his light vpon it, and couereth the bottome of the sea.
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- For by these gouerneth he his people, and geueth them aboundance of meate.
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- With the cloudes he hydeth the light, and at his commaundement it breaketh out:
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- Which dashing vpon the next cloudes, shew tokens of wrath.
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