( JOB MILITANT. Live any more fecure than they ? or who · Dare once reprove them for the deeds they do } He lives in power, and in peace, he dies, Attended in his p()mpous Obfequies, . Bow v.ain are then the comforts o~ your ·breath, 1'hat cenfure g~odnefs, or by life or death ? Said &tipbaz, what then remains? Thy tongue Hath quit thy 'felf, accus~d thy God of '\-vtong. Gains he by mam uprightnefs? Can man add To hi$ perfe€tion, :vhat he never had ? _ Fears he the ftrength of man ? Doth he torment him f~efr that his untam"d powerfhould prevent him? \Vhac need I wafic this breath1 ? Recall thy fenfe r; ~nd take the Inventory of chy offences : · Thou took'fi the poor mans pawn, nor haft thou fed Thy needy brother, with thy profp'rous bread ; Thy hands perverted Jufiice, and have fpoil'd · The hopelefs widow, wjch her helplefs child•. Hence i'prin?: thy farrows (Job 5 ) 'Tis Jufiice then Thou !hould'fi be plagu'd, tha.t thus plagu'd <ilthcr men; Is heaven jufr ? Can heavc;ns Juft Creator Let pafs (unpunifht) fins of fo high-a nature? flach not experience taught, that for a whik, _The wicked may exalt their Crefts, and finile, BlE>wn up with Infolence: but in 'onclufrun They fall ;,ami go0d men laugh at their confufion? Job, acid .niX i1n to tin, ceafe to beguile Thy felf, thinking to c,uel'lch thy fire with oyl .: Return thee re thy God, confefs thy crimes ; Return, and he w11l crown thy after-rimes 'With forme~ blefiings, and thy riches lh~H ~e as the fand : for God is all in all : Hi$ face £hall welcome thee~ and fmile upnn thee, And ceafe rhar mifchief hi~ ju'ft ha~d hath done th::e. He lliaHbe pleafed with t~y holy tires, Ar.d gr::u;lt the iilitc: of thy bcfr ddires. Job
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