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Then the Lord answered Iob out of the whirlewind, and sayd,

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Who is this that darkneth counsell by words without knowledge?

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Gird vp nowe thy loines like a man; for I will demaund of thee, and ^note answere thou me.

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

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Who hath layd the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line vpon it?

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Wherepuon are the ^note foundations

Mans weakenes. thereof ^note fastened? or who layd the corner stone thereof?

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When the morning starres sang together, and all the sonnes of God shouted for ioy.

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^noteOr who shut vp the sea with doores, when it brake foorth as if it had issued out of the wombe?

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When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thicke darknesse a swadling band for it,

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And ^note brake vp for it my decreed place, and set barres and doores,

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And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and heere shall ^note thy proud waues be stayed.

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Hast thou commaunded the morning since thy daies? and caused the day-spring to know his place,

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

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It is turned as clay to the seale, and they stand as a garment.

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And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arme shalbe broken.

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Hast thou entred into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the depth?

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Haue the gates of death bene opened vnto thee? or hast thou seene the doores of the shadow of death?

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Hast thou perceiued the breadth of the earth? Declare if thou knowest it all.

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Where is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darknesse, where is the place thereof?

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That thou shouldest take it ^note to the bound thereof, and that thou shouldest know the pathes to the house thereof.

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Knowest thou it, because thou wast then borne? or because the number of thy daies is great?

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Hast thou entred into the treasures of the snowe? or hast thou seene the treasures of the haile,

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Which I haue reserued against the time of trouble, against the day of battaile and warre?

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By what way is the light parted? which scattereth the East wind vpon the earth.

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Who hath diuided a water-course for the ouerflowing of waters? or a way for the lightning of thunder,

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To cause it to raine on the earth, where no man is: on the wildernesse wherein there is no man? Gods secret workes

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To satisfie the desolate and waste ground, and to cause the bud of the tender herbe to spring forth.

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Hath the raine a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew?

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Out of whose wombe came the yce? and the hoary frost of heauen, who hath gendred it?

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The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deepe ^note is frozen.

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Canst thou bind the sweete influences of ^note Pleiades? or loose the bands of ^note Orion?

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Canst thou bring forth ^note Mazzaroth in his season, or canst thou ^note guide Arcturus with his sonnes?

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Knowest thou the ordinances of heauen? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?

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Canst thou lift vp thy voice to the cloudes, that abundance of waters may couer thee?

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Canst thou send lightnings, that they may goe, and say vnto thee, ^note Here we are?

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^noteWho hath put wisedome in the inward parts? or who hath giuen vnderstanding to the heart?

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Who can number the cloudes in wisedome? or ^note who can stay the bottles of heauen,

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^noteWhen the dust ^note groweeh into hardnesse, and the clods cleaue fast together?

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^noteWilt thou hunt the pray for the lyon? or fill the ^note appetite of the young lyons,

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When they couch in their dennes, and abide in the couert to lie in waite?

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^noteWho prouideth for the rauen his foode? when his young ones cry vnto God, they wander for lacke of meate. 475

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