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And hee tooke him a potsheard to scrape himselfe withall; and hee sate downe among the ashes.

So they sate downe with him vpon the ground seuen dayes, and seuen nights, and none spake a word vnto him; for they saw that his griefe was very great.

Let the day perish, wherein I was borne, and the night in which it was said, There is a man-childe conceiued.

1611 marginal noteChap. 10.18,19. iere. 20.14.

Let darkenes and the shadowe of death staine it, let a cloud dwell vpon it, let the blacknes of the day terrifie it.

1611 marginal noteOr, challenge it.

1611 marginal noteOr, let them terrifie it, as those who haue a bitter day.

Why is light giuen to a man, whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?

1611 marginal noteChap. 19.8.

Nowe a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine eare receiued a litle thereof.

1611 marginal noteHeb. by stealth.

Then a spirit passed before my face: the haire of my flesh stood vp.

It stood still, but I could not discerne the forme thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voyce, saying,

1611 marginal noteOr, I heard a still voyce.

Shall mortall man be more iust then God? shall a man bee more pure then his maker?

Thou shalt come to thy graue in a full age, like as a shocke of corne commeth in, in his season.

1611 marginal noteHeb. ascendeth.