1   Then answered the Lord vnto Iob out of the ^note whirle winde, and said,

2   Who is this that ^note darkeneth the counsell by wordes without knowledge?

3   Girde vp nowe thy loynes like a man: I ^note will demande of thee & declare thou vnto me.

4   Where wast thou when I layd the ^note foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast vnderstanding,

5   Who hath layde the measures thereof, if thou knowest, or who hath stretched the line ouer it:

6   Whereupon are the foundations thereof set: or who layed the corner stone thereof:

7   When the starres of the morning ^note praysed me together, and all the ^note children of God reioyced:

8   Or who hath shut vp the Sea with doores, when it yssued and came foorth as out of the wombe: The secrete workes of God.

9   When I made the cloudes as a couering thereof, and darkenesse as the ^note swadeling bands thereof:

10   When I stablished my commandement vpon it, and set barres and doores,

11   And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther, and here ^note shall it stay thy proude waues.

12   Hast thou commanded the ^note morning since thy dayes? hast thou caused the morning to knowe his place,

13   That it might take hold of the corners of the earth, and that the wicked might be ^note shaken out of it?

14   It is turned as clay to facion, ^note and all stand vp as a garment.

15   And from the wicked their light shall be taken away, and the hie arme shalbe broken.

16   Hast thou entred into the bottomes of the sea? or hast thou walked to seeke out the ^note depth?

17   Haue the gates of death bene opened vnto thee? or hast thou seene the gates of the shadowe of death?

18   Hast thou perceiued the breadth of the earth? tell if thou knowest all this.

19   Where is the way where light dwelleth? and where is the place of darkenesse,

20   That thou ^note shouldest receiue it in the boundes thereof, and that thou shouldest knowe the paths to the house thereof?

21   Knewest thou it, because thou wast then borne, and because the nomber of thy dayes is great?

22   Hast thou entred into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou seene the treasures of þe; haile,

23   Which I haue ^note hid against the time of trouble, against the day of warre and battell?

24   By what way is the light parted, which scattereth the East winde vpon the earth?

25   Who hath deuided the spowtes for the raine? or the way for the lightning of þe; thunders,

26   To cause it to raine on the earth where no man is, and in the wildernes where there is no man?

27   To fulfil the wilde and waste place, and to cause the bud of the herbe to spring forth?

28   Who is the father of the rayne? or who hath begotten the droppes of the dewe?

29   Out of whose wombe came the yee? who hath ingendred the frost of the heauen?

30   The waters are hid ^note as with a stone: and the face of the depth is frosen.

31   Canst thou restraine the sweete influences of ^note the Pleiades? or loose the bandes of ^note Orion?

32   Canst thou bring foorth ^note Mazzaroth in their time? canst thou also guide ^note Arcturus with his sonnes?

33   Knowest thou the course of heauen, or canst thou set ^note the rule thereof in the earth?

34   Canst thou lift vp thy voice to the cloudes that the aboundance of water may couer thee?

35   Canst thou sende the lightenings that they may walke, and say vnto thee, Loe, heere we are?

36   Who hath put wisedome in the ^note reines? or who hath giuen the heart vnderstanding?

37   Who can nomber cloudes by wisedome? or who can cause to cease the ^note bottels of heau&ebar;,

38   When the earth groweth into hardnesse, ^note and the clottes are fast together?

Gods mercie and power.

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