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- Moreouer ye Lord spake vnto Iob, & said,
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- Is this to learne to striue with the Almightie?
he that reprooueth God, let him answere to it.
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- Then Iob answered the Lord, saying,
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- Beholde, I am vile: what shall I answere thee?
I will lay mine hand vpon my mouth.
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- Once haue I spoken, but I will answere no more, yea twise, but I will proceede no further.
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- Againe the Lord answered Iob out of the whirle winde, and said,
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- Girde vp now thy loynes like a man: I will demaunde of thee, and declare thou vnto me.
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- Wilt thou disanul my iudgement?
or wilt thou condemne me, that thou mayst be iustified?
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- Or hast thou an arme like God?
or doest thou thunder with a voyce like him?
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- Decke thy selfe now with maiestie & excellencie, & aray thy selfe with beautie & glory.
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- Cast abroad the indignation of thy wrath, and beholde euery one that is proude, and abase him.
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- Looke on euery one that is arrogant, and bring him lowe: and destroy the wicked in their place.
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- Hide them in the dust together, and binde their faces in a secret place.
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- Then will I confesse vnto thee also, that thy right hand can saue thee.
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- Behold now Behemoth (whom I made with thee) which eateth grasse as an oxe.
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- Behold now, his strength is in his loynes, and his force is in the nauil of his belly.
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- When hee taketh pleasure, his taile is like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapt together.
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- His bones are like staues of brasse, and his small bones like staues of yron.
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- He is the chiefe of the wayes of God: he that made him, will make his sworde to approch vnto him.
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- Surely the mountaines bring him foorth grasse, where all the beastes of the fielde play.
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- Lyeth hee vnder the trees in the couert of the reede and fennes?
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- Can the trees couer him with their shadow?
or can the willowes of the riuer compasse him about?
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- Behold, he spoyleth the riuer, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw vp Iorden into his mouth.
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- Hee taketh it with his eyes, and thrusteth his nose through whatsoeuer meeteth him.
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