1Great travail is created for every man, and an heavy yoke is upon the sons of Adam, from the day that they go out of their mother’s womb, till the day that they return to the mother of all things.
2Their imagination of things to come, and the day of death, trouble their thoughts, and cause fear of heart;
3From him that sits on a throne of glory, to him that is humbled in earth and ashes;
4From him that wears purple and a crown, to him that is clothed with a linen frock.
5Wrath, and envy, trouble, and unquietness, fear of death, and anger, and strife, and in the time of rest upon his bed his night sleep, do change his knowledge.
6A little or nothing is his rest, and afterward he is in his sleep, as in a day of keeping watch, troubled in the vision of his heart, as if he were escaped out of a battle.
7When all is safe, he awakes, and marvelleth that the fear was nothing.
8Such things happen to all flesh, both man and beast, and that is sevenfold more upon sinners.