God

Yet if thou wilt early seeke vnto God, and pray to the Almightie,

If thou be pure and vpright, then surely hee will awake vp vnto thee, and he wil make the habitation of thy righteousnesse prosperous.

So are the paths of al that forget God, and the hypocrites hope shall perish.

Behold, God will not cast away an vpright man, neither will he take the wicked by the hand,

Till he haue filled thy mouth with laughter, and thy lippes with ioy.

I knowe verily that it is so: for howe should man compared vnto God, be iustified?

If I would dispute with him, hee could not answere him one thing of a thousand.

He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath bene fierce against him and hath prospered?

He remoueth the mountaines, and they feele not when he ouerthroweth them in his wrath.

Lo, when he goeth by me, I see him not: and when he passeth by, I perceiue him not.

Behold, when he taketh a pray, who can make him to restore it? who shall say vnto him, What doest thou?

God will not withdrawe his anger, and the most mightie helpes doe stoupe vnder him.

Howe much lesse shall I answere him? or howe should I finde out my words with him?

If I cry, and he answere me, yet woulde I not beleeue, that he heard my voyce.

For he destroyeth mee with a tempest, and woundeth me without cause.

If we speake of strength, behold, he is strog: if we speake of iudgement, who shall bring me in to pleade?

If the scourge should suddenly slay, should God laugh at the punishment of the innocent?

The earth is giuen into the hand of ye wicked: he couereth the faces of the iudges therof: if not, where is he? or who is he?

Then I am afrayd of all my sorowes, knowing that thou wilt not iudge me innocent.

Yet shalt thou plunge mee in the pit, and mine owne clothes shall make me filthie.

For he is not a man as I am, that I shoulde answere him, if we come together to iudgement.

Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his feare astonish me:

Then will I speake, and feare him not: but because I am not so, I holde me still.

I will say vnto God, Condemne mee not: shew me, wherefore thou contendest with mee.

Thinkest thou it good to oppresse me, and to cast off the labour of thine handes, and to fauour the counsel of the wicked?