Neuerthelesse, now will I put forth
my wordes: I wil speake out of the
very heuynesse off my soule, and will
-- --
saye vnto God: O do not condemne me, but
shewe me the cause, wherfore thou iudgest
me on this maner. Thinkest thou it well done,
to oppresse me, to cast me of (beinge a worke
of thy hondes) and to manteyne the councell
of the vngodly? Hast thou fle&esset;shy eyes
then, or doest thou loke as man loketh? Are
thy dayes as the dayes of man, and thy yeares
as mans yeares? that thou makest soch
inquisicion for my wickednesse, and searchest
out my synne? where as (notwithstondinge)
thou knowest that I am no wicked person, ∧
that there is no man able to delyuer me out
of thine honde. Thy hondes haue made me, note
∧ fashioned me alltogether rounde aboute,
wilt thou then destroye me sod&ebar;ly? O remembre
(I beseke the) how that thou madest me
of the moulde of the earth, and shalt brynge
me to earth agayne.
B Hast thou not milked me, as it were mylck:
and turned me to cruddes like chese? Thou
hast couered me with skynne and flesh, and
ioyned me together with bones ∧ synowes.
Thou hast graunted me life, and done me
good: and the diligent hede that thou tokest
vpon me, hath preserued my sprete.
Though thou hydest these thinges in thine
hert, yet am I sure, that thou remembrest
th&ebar; all. Wherfore didest thou kepe me, when
I synned, and hast not clensed me fro myne
offence? Yf I do wickedly, wo is me therfore:
Yf I be rightuous, yet darre I not lift
vp my heade: so full am I of confucion, and
se myne owne misery.
C Thou huntest me out (beynge in heuynesse)
as it were a Lyon, and troublest me out of
measure. Thou bringest fresh witnesses agaynst
me, thy wrath increasest thou vpon
me, very many are the plages that I am in.
noteWherfore hast thou brought me out of my
mothers wombe? O that I had perished, ∧
that no eye had sene me. Yf they had caried
me to my graue, as soone as I was borne,
then shulde I be now, as though I had neuer
bene.
Shall not my short life come soone to an
ende? O holde the fro me, let me alone, that
I maye ease myself a litle: afore I go thyther,
from whence I shal not turne agayne:
Namely, to that londe of darcknesse ∧ shadowe
of death: yee into that darck clowdy
londe ∧ deadly shadowe, where as is no ordre,
but terrible feare as in the darcknesse.
Coverdale [1535], BIBLIA The Bible / that is, the holy Scripture of the Olde and New Testament, faithfully and truly translated out of Douche and Latyn in to Englishe () [word count] [B04000].
