11 Alas why died I not in the birth? why dyd not I perishe assoone as I came out of my mothers wombe?

12 Why set they me vpon their knees? why gaue they me sucke with their brestes?

13 Then should I nowe haue lyen stil, I shoulde haue slept, and ben at rest,

14 Lyke as the kinges and lordes of the earth, which haue buylded them selues speciall places,

15 Or as the princes that haue had golde, and their houses full of siluer:

16 Or why was not I hyd, as a thing borne out of tune, either as young children which neuer sawe the light?

Job 3:11-16, Bishops' Bible of 1568. Public domain.
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