Verse 1

My breth fayleth, my dayes are shortened, I am harde at deathes dore.

Referenced Verses

• Ps 88:3-5 : 3 I am couted as one of the that go downe vnto the pytte, I am eue as a ma that hath no stregth. 4 Fre amoge the deed, like vnto the yt lye in the graue, which be out of remembrauce, and are cutt awaye from thy honde. 5 Thou hast layed me in the lowest pytte, in ye darcknesse and in the depe.
• Isa 38:10-14 : 10 I thought I shulde haue gone to the gates of hell in my best age, and haue wanted the residue of my yeares. 11 I spake within my self: I shal neuer viset the LORDE God in this life: I shal neuer se man, amonge the dwellers of the worlde 12 Myne age is folden vp together and taken awaye fro me, like a sheperdes cotage: my lyfe is hewen of, like as a weeuer cutteth of his webb. Whyl I was yet takinge my rest, he hewed me of, & made an ende of me in one daie. 13 I thought I wolde haue lyued vnto the morow, but he brussed my bones like a lyon, and made an ende of me in one daye. 14 Then chatred I like a swalowe, and like a Crane, and mourned as a doue. I lift vp myne eyes in to ye hight: O LORDE, (sayde I) violence is done vnto me, be thou suertie for me.
• Isa 57:16 : 16 For I chide not euer, & am not wroth wt out ende. But ye blastinge goeth fro me, though I make the breath.
• Job 6:11 : 11 What power haue I to endure? Or? what is myne ende, that my soule might be paciet?
• Job 17:13-14 : 13 Though I tary neuer so moch, yet the graue is my house, and I must make my bed in the darcke. 14 I call corrupcion my father, and the wormes call I my mother and my sister.
• Job 19:17 : 17 Myne owne wyfe maye not abyde my breth, I am fayne to speake fayre vnto the children of myne owne body.
• Job 42:16 : 16 After this lyued Iob xl. yeares, so that he sawe his children, & his childers children vnto the fourth generacion.