Certes, all the sorrow that a man might make from the beginning of the world, is but a little thing, at retard of 5053 the sorrow of hell. The cause why that Job calleth hell the land of darkness; 5054 understand, that he calleth it land or earth, for it is stable and never shall fail, and dark, for he that is in hell hath default 5055 of light natural; for certes the dark light, that shall come out of the fire that ever shall burn, shall turn them all to pain that be in hell, for it sheweth them the horrible devils that them torment. Covered with the darkness of death; that is to say, that he that is in hell shall have default of the sight of God; for certes the sight of God is the life perdurable. 5056 The darkness of death, be the sins that the wretched man hath done, which that disturb 5057