God

But he said vnto her, Thou speakest like a foolish woman: what? shall we receiue good at the hande of God, and not receiue euill? In all this did not Iob sinne with his lippes.

Let that day bee darkenesse, let not God regarde it from aboue, neyther let the light shine vpon it,

Why is the light giuen to the man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?

With the blast of God they perish, and with the breath of his nostrels are they cosumed.

Shall man be more iust then God? or shall a man be more pure then his maker?

Beholde, he founde no stedfastnesse in his Seruants, and laid follie vpon his Angels.

But I would inquire at God, and turne my talke vnto God:

But he saueth the poore from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hande of the violent man,

Beholde, blessed is the man whome God correcteth: therefore refuse not thou the chastising of the Almightie.

For he maketh the wound, and bindeth it vp: he smiteth, and his handes make whole.

In famine he shall deliuer thee from death: and in battel from the power of the sworde.

For the arrowes of the Almightie are in me, the venime whereof doeth drinke vp my spirit, and the terrours of God fight against me.

Oh that I might haue my desire, and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!

That is, that God would destroy me: that he would let his hand go, and cut me off.

Then should I yet haue comfort, (though I burne with sorowe, let him not spare) because I haue not denyed the wordes of the Holy one.

He that is in miserie, ought to be comforted of his neighbour: but men haue forsaken the feare of the Almightie.

Am I a sea or a whalefish, that thou keepest me in warde?

Then fearest thou me with dreames, and astonishest me with visions.

What is man, that thou doest magnifie him, and that thou settest thine heart vpon him?

And doest visite him euery morning, and tryest him euery moment?

Howe long will it be yer thou depart from me? thou wilt not let me alone whiles I may swallowe my spettle.

I haue sinned, what shall I do vnto thee? O thou preseruer of me, why hast thou set me as a marke against thee, so that I am a burden vnto my selfe?

And why doest thou not pardon my trespasse? and take away mine iniquitie? for nowe shall I sleepe in the dust, and if thou seekest me in the morning, I shall not be found.

Doeth God peruert iudgement? or doeth the Almightie subuert iustice?

If thy sonnes haue sinned against him, and he hath sent them into the place of their iniquitie,