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In the 31. Chap. of this book. 19. v. he saith,¹ If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, &c. which to be the true reading, is confessed by your own Masters, and proved by the Hebrew text. But your translation maketh Job thus to speak, If I have despised him that passed by for because he had no garment. Which, ⟨p. 303⟩words carry with them an other sense, then the former will admit. And though in your last editions some of your reformers have in stead of him that passed by, placed in the text, him that perished, yet this salve hath not made the wound whole. For first you keep still the word despising in stead of seeing, and further that your vulgar translation ought not to be corrected in that other word, as of late it hath been, by whose authority and judgement soever, may be known by Aquinas and Saint Gregory, and many moe, who in their commentaries upon this book have set down the words in such sort, as I have rehearsed out of your translation. If this be a fault, as you have granted, in correcting it in some part, then have your latin Bibles been faulty this thousand years together: and if you may now by comparing your vulgar latin with the Hebrew reform this corruption though it be of so long continuance, why may you not as well in all other places, where your translation doth plainly disagree from the Hebrew, as it doth in a thousand, file it and make it as even as you can with the Authentical text?

In the 31. Chap. of this booke. 19. v. he saith,¹ If I haue seene any perish for want of clothing, &c. which to be the true reading, is confessed by your owne Masters, and prooued by the Hebrew text. But your translation maketh Iob thus to speake, If I haue despised him that passed by for because hee had no garment. Which, ⟨p. 303⟩wordes carie with them an other sense, then the former wil admit. And though in your last editions some of your reformers haue in stead of him that passed by, placed in the text, him that perished, yet this salue hath not made the wounde wholl. For first you keepe still the worde despising in steade of seeing, and further that your vulgare translation ought not to be corrected in that other word, as of late it hath bene, by whose authoritie and iudgement soeuer, may be knowne by Aquinas and Saint Gregorie, and many moe, whoe in their commentaries vpon this booke haue sett downe the wordes in such sorte, as I haue rehearsed out of your translation. If this be a fault, as you haue graunted, in correcting it in some parte, then haue your latine Bibles beene faultie this thousand yeares together: and if you may now by comparing your vulgare latine with the Hebrew reforme this corruption though it be of so long continuance, whie may you not as well in all other places, where your translation doth plainely disagree from the Hebrew, as it doth in a thousand, fyle it and make it as euen as you can with the Authenticall text?