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CHAP. III.

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