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Matthew's Bible 1537
| 3:1 | After thys opened Iob hys mouth, and, cursed his day |
| 3:2 | and sayde: |
| 3:3 | loste be that daye, wherin I was borne: and the nyght, in that which it was sayde: there is a man chylde conceyued. |
| 3:4 | The same daye be turned to darcknesse, & not regarded of God from aboue, nether be shyned vpon with lyght: |
| 3:5 | but be couered with darcknesse, & the shadowe of death. Let the dymme cloude fall vpon it, & let it be lapped in with sorow. |
| 3:6 | Let the darck storme ouercome that nyght, let it not be reckened amonge the dayes of the yeare, ner counted in the monethes. |
| 3:7 | Despysed be that night, & discommended: let them that curse the daye, |
| 3:8 | euen those that be ready to rayse vp mourninge geue it also theyr cursse. |
| 3:9 | Let the starres be dymme thorow darcknesse of it. Let it loke for lyght, but let it se none, nether the rysyng vp of the fayre mornynge, |
| 3:10 | because it shut not vp the wombe that bare me, ner hyd these sorowes from myne eyes. |
| 3:11 | Alas, why dyed I not in the byrth? Why dyd not I perysh, as sone as I came oute of my mothers wombe? |
| 3:12 | Why set they me vpon their knees? Why gaue they me suck wyth their brestes? |
| 3:13 | Then shulde I now haue lyen styll, I shulde haue slepte, & bene at rest: |
| 3:14 | like as the kynges & lordes of the erth, which buyld them selues specyall places: |
| 3:15 | As the prynces that haue greate substaunce of gould, & theyr houses full of syluer. |
| 3:16 | O that I vtterlye had no beynge, or were as a thynge borne out of tyme (that is put asyde) ether as yonge chyldren, which neuer sawe the light. |
| 3:17 | There must the wycked ceasse from their tyranny, there soch as are ouerlaboured be at rest: |
| 3:18 | there are those let out fre, whych haue bene in preson, so that they heare nomore the voyce of the oppressour: |
| 3:19 | There are small and greate: the bonde man, and he that is fre from his mayster. |
| 3:20 | Wherfore is the lyght geuen to hym that is in miserye? and lyfe vnto them, that haue heuy hertes? |
| 3:21 | Whyche longe for death, yf it come not: and search for it more then for treasure |
| 3:22 | which also would be exceding glad, & reioyce yf they found their graue. |
| 3:23 | That should be ioye to the man whose way is hyd, which God kepeth backe from him. |
| 3:24 | For my sighes come before I eate, and my roarynges fall oute lyke flowynge water. |
| 3:25 | For the thynge that I feared, is come vpon me: and the thing that I was afraied of, is happened vnto me? |
| 3:26 | Was I not happye? Had I not quyetnesse? Was I not in rest? And now commeth such misery vpon me. |
Matthew's Bible 1537
The Matthew Bible, also known as Matthew's Version, was first published in 1537 by John Rogers, under the pseudonym "Thomas Matthew". It combined the New Testament of William Tyndale, and as much of the Old Testament as he had been able to translate before being captured and put to death, with the translations of Myles Coverdale as to the balance of the Old Testament and the Apocrypha, except the Apocryphal Prayer of Manasses. It is thus a vital link in the main sequence of English Bible translations.