A   So Iob proceaded and w&ebar;te forth in his communicacion, sayenge: O þt; I were as I was in the monethes by past, ∧ in the dayes wh&ebar; God preserued me: when his light shyned vpon my heade: wh&ebar; I wente after the same light ∧ shyne eu&ebar; thorow the darcknesse. As it stode &wt; me, wh&ebar; I was welthy ∧ had ynough: wh&ebar; God prospered my house: when the allmightie was with me: when my housholde folkes stode aboute me: wh&ebar; my wayes ranne ouer &wt; butter, ∧ when the stony rockes gaue me ryuers

of oyle: when I wente thorow the cite vnto the gate, ∧ wh&ebar; they set me a chayre in þe; strete: B   wh&ebar; the yonge m&ebar; (as soone as they sawe me) hyd th&ebar; selues, ∧ when the aged arose, ∧ stode vp vnto me: wh&ebar; the princes left of their talkinge, ∧ laied their h&abar;de to their mouth: wh&ebar; the mightie kepte still their voyce, and wh&ebar; their tonges cleued to the rofe of their mouthes. When all they þt; herde me, called me happie: ∧ when all they þt; sawe me, wysshed me good. For I delyuered þe; poore wh&ebar; he cried, ∧ the fatherlesse þt; wanted helpe. He þt; shulde haue bene lost, gaue me a good worde, ∧ þe; widdowes hert praised me. And why? I put vpon me rightuousnes, which couered me as a garm&ebar;t, ∧ equite was my crowne. I was an eye vnto the blynde, ∧ a fote to the lame. I was a father vnto the poore, ∧ wh&ebar; I knew not their cause, I sought it out dilig&ebar;tly. I brake the chaftes of þe; vnrightuous, ∧ plucte the spoyle out of their teth. ^note

C   Therfore, I thought verely, þt; I shulde haue dyed in my nest: ∧ þt; my dayes shulde haue bene as many as the sondes of the see. For my rote was spred out by the waters syde, ∧ the dew laye vp&obar; my corne. My hono&highr; encreased more ∧ more, and my bowe was euer the stronger in my hande. Vnto me men gaue eare, me they regarded, ∧ &wt; sylence they taried for my co&ubar;cell. Yf I had spoken, they wolde haue it none other wayes, my wordes were so well taken amonge th&ebar;. They wayted for me, as the earth doth for the rayne: ∧ gaped vpon me, as the gro&ubar;de doth to receaue the latter shower. When I laughed, they knew well it was not earnest: ∧ this testimony of my co&ubar;tenaunce pleased th&ebar; nothinge at all. When I agreed vnto their waye, I was the chefe, ∧ sat as a kynge amonge his seruauntes: Or as one that comforteth soch as be in heuynesse.

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