
LA VIE DE L’HOMME SUR TERRE
(COMME DICT
JOB) C’EST
UNE GUERRE.[1]
Deux chevaliers armez courent la lance
En un plain champ pour preuve de vaillance.
Devant la face, & Majesté du Roy.
Et du combat est escripte la Loy
Sur un Perron, par semblable teneur.
Gloire au vinqueur:
au vincu deshonneur.
Le Roy qui a le combat proposé:
Les veoit, & juge, en son hault lieu posé.
Or entendez que cela signifie.
Guerre (dict
Job) est ceste humaine vie.
Dieu est le Roy, de lassus regardant.
Peine au vincu, Pris au vinqueur gardant.
De ce combat, la Loy escripte, est mise
En l’Evangile, & Tables de
Moyse.
Et le plain champ, est ce Mondain pourpris
Ou courent tous: mais un
seul a le pris.[2]
1. The King James Version, more faithful to the Hebrew, reads (like the Septuagint): “Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?” The idea that this service to an appointed time has a military character seems to be Jerome’s.
2. The last line seems to allude to 1 Corinthians 9:24: “Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.”
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