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OF IOB.

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CHAP. III.

Iob lamenteth, describing his owne, and the general calamities of man, 13. and shewing how they escape manie miseries which either are neuer borne, or dye presently after their birth.

AFTER these things Iob opened his mouth, and ^[1] cursed his day, ²and spake. ³Perish may the day wherin I was borne, & the night wherin it was sayd: A man is conceiued. ⁴Be that day turned into darkenesse, God require it not from aboue, and let it not be lightened with light. ⁵Let darkenes, and the shadow of death obscure it, let a mist possesse it, and be it wrapped in bitternesse. ⁶A darkesome hurlewind possesse that night, be it not counted in the daies of the yeare, nor numbred in the months. ⁷Be that night solitarie, nor prayse-worthie. ⁸Let them curse it which curse the day, which are readie to raise vp Leuiathan. ⁹Let the starres be darkened with the mist therof: let it expect light and let it not see, neither the rysing of the appearing morning. ¹⁰Because it shut not vp the doores of the wombe that bare me, nor tooke away euils from myne eies. ¹¹Why died I not in the matrice, perished not forthwith being come forth of the wombe? ¹²Why receiued vpon the knees? why nourced with the breasts? ¹³For now sleeping I should be quiet, and should rest in my sleep: ¹⁴With Kings and consuls of the earth, which build themselues solitarie places: ¹⁵Or with Princes, that possesse gold, and replenish their houses with siluer: ¹⁶Or as a thing vntimely borne that is hid I should not be, or as they that being conceiued haue not seen the light. ¹⁷There the impious haue ceased from tumult, & there the wearied with strength haue rested. ¹⁸And they sometime bound together without griefe, haue not heard the voyce of the exactor. ¹⁹Litle and great are there, and the seruant free from his master. ²⁰Why is there light giuen to a miserable man, and life to them, that are in bitternesse of soule, ²¹that expect death, and it commeth not, as they that dig vp treasure, ²²and they reioyce exceedingly when they haue found the graue? ²³To a man whose life is hid, and God hath compassed him with darkenes? ²⁴Before I eate I sigh: and as it were ouerflowing waters, so my roaring: ²⁵Because the feare which I feared, hath chanced to me: and that which I was afrayd of, hath happened. ²⁶Haue I not dissembled? haue I not kept silence? haue I not been at ease? and indignation is come vpon me.

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↑ After so long silence, at last Iob expresseth his grief before his freinds to be so great, that in respect therof he iustly curseth al euil things, as not made by God, but ioyned to mans life, being the effects of sinne, euen from his conception and birth: wishing that whatsoever concurred to his longer afflictions in this life & hindred his more speedy deliverie from dangers & calamities had not been: for so he had been sooner at rest as Gods goodnes should dispose of him. Al which was a lawful desire & no sinne at al. See 1. Pineda in c. 2. Iob.

[1] After so long silence, at last Iob expresseth his grief before his freinds to be so great, that in respect therof he iustly curseth al euil things, as not made by God, but ioyned to mans life, being the effects of sinne, euen from his conception and birth: wishing that whatsoever concurred to his longer afflictions in this life & hindred his more speedy deliverie from dangers & calamities had not been: for so he had been sooner at rest as Gods goodnes should dispose of him. Al which was a lawful desire & no sinne at al. See 1. Pineda in c. 2. Iob.

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