and search for it more than for treasure. Which also would be exceedingly glad, and rejoice if they found their grave.

"O that I might have my desire! O that God would grant me the thing, that I long for!

That he would begin and smite me: that he would let his hand go, and hew me down.

Then should I have some comfort: yea, I would desire him in my pain, that he should not spare, for I will not be against the words of the holy one.

For like as a bond servant desireth the shadow, and as a hireling would fain have an end of his work:

If I had called upon him, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had heard my voice!

O that God would speak, and open his lips against thee,

Would God ye kept your tongue, that ye might be taken for wise men!

I could speak as ye do also. But would God, that your soul were in my soul's stead: then should I heap up words against you, and shake my head at you.

would God they were graven with an iron pen in lead or in stone.

That he favoured, that would he not forsake; but kept it close in his throat.

That I might know, what answer he would give me: and that I might understand, what he would say unto me.

If I had spoken, they would have it none other ways, my words were so well taken among them.

But now, they that are mine inferiors and younger than I, have me in derision; yea even they, whose fathers I would have thought scorn to have set with the dogs of my cattle.

I made a covenant with mine eyes, that I would not look upon a damsel.

O that I had one which would hear me. Lo, this is my cause: Let the almighty give me answer, and let him that is my contrary party, sue me with libel.

So these three men would strive no more with Job, because he held himself a righteous man.

For if I would go about to please men, I know not how soon my maker would take me away.

Therefore turned they back traitorously and unfaithfully from him, and would not receive his ways.