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My brethren haue delt deceitfully as a brooke, & as the streame of brookes they passe away,

Did I say, Bring vnto mee? or giue a reward for me of your substance?

Yea, ye ouerwhelme the fatherlesse, and you digge a pit for your friend.

1611 marginal noteHebr. ye cause to fall vpon.

As a seruant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his worke:

1611 marginal noteHebr. gapeth after.

My dayes are swifter then a weauers shuttle, and are spent without hope.

1611 marginal noteIob 16.22. psal. 90.6 and 102.11 and 103.15. and 144.4. isa. 40.6. iam. 4.14.

Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch ouer me?

I haue sinned, what shall I doe vnto thee, O thou preseruer of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to my selfe?

How long wilt thou speake these things? and how long shall the wordes of thy mouth be like a strong wind?

(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our dayes vpon earth are a shadow.)

1611 marginal noteHeb. not.

1611 marginal noteSee chap. 7.6. gen. 47.9. 1.chron. 29.15. psal. 144.4. psal. 39.14.

Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spiders web.

1611 marginal noteHeb. a spiders house.