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¶ Iob i•• wery of his lyfe, and setteth out his frag••lyte before god. He desy••eth the tyme to repent. A dis••typ∣ryon of death.
CAPI. X.
IT greueth my soule to lyue. I wyll make [unspec A] my complaynte, and wyl speake out of the very heuynesse of my soule. I wyl say vn∣to God: O do not condemne me, but shew me the cause, wherfore thou contendest so with me. Thynkest thou it well done, to oppresse me, to cast me of (beyng the worke of thy han des) and to maynteyne the counsell of the vn godly▪ Hal••e thou flesshy eyes: or doest thou loke as a man loketh? Or are thy dayes as the dayes of man, and thy yeres as mans ye∣res? that thou makest suche inquisicion for my wyckednesse, and searchest out my synne? where as (notwithstandynge) thou knowest that I am no wycked persone, & that * 1.1 there is no man able to delyuer me oute of thyne hande. * 1.2 Thy handes haue made me, and fassyoned me altogyther rounde about, wylt thou then destroy me sodeynly?
O remembre (I beseke the) how that thou [unspec B] madest me of the moulde of the earth, & shalt brynge me into dust agayne. Hast thou not turned me, as it were mylke: & turned me to cruddes lyke chese? Thou haste couered me with skynne & fleshe, and ioyned me togyther with hones & synnowes. Thou hast graun∣ted me lyfe, & done me good: and the dilygent hede that thou tokest vpō me, hath preserued my spiryte. Thou hast hyd these thynges in thyne herte. I am sure, that thou remembrest this thyng. Y•• I dyd syn, thou haddest an eye vnto me, & shalt not declare me innocent by∣cause of myn offence. Y•• I haue done wycked lye, wo is me therfore: yf I haue done rygh∣teously, yet da••e I not lyfte vp my heade: so ful am I of cōfusyon, & se myne owne misery
Thou huntest me out (beyng in heuynesse) [unspec C] as it were a Lyon, and troublest me oute of measure. Thou bryngest freshe wytnesses a∣gaynst me, & thy wrath increasest thou vpon me, very many are the plages that I am in. * 1.3 Whefore hast thou brought me out of my mothers wombe? O that I had perysshed, & that no eye had sene me. If they had caryed me to my graue assoone as I was borne, then shuld I be now, as though I had neuer bene. Are not my dayes fewe? Let hym then leaue of fro me and let me alone, that I maye ease my selfe a lytell before I go thyther, frome whence I shall not turne agayne: euen to the lande of darkenesse and shadowe of deathe: yea in to that darke cloudy lande and deadly shadowe, where as is no ordre, but terrible feare, as in the darkenesse.