Job 27

1 Job also added to this, using figures of speech, and he said:

Moreouer Iob proceeded and continued his parable, saying,

2 As God lives, who has taken away my judgment, and the Almighty, who has led my soul to bitterness,

The liuing God hath taken away my iudgement: for the Almightie hath put my soule in bitternesse.

3 as long as my breath remains in me and the breath of God remains in my nostrils,

Yet so long as my breath is in me, and the Spirit of God in my nostrels,

4 my lips will not speak iniquity, nor will my tongue devise lies.

My lips surely shall speake no wickednesse, and my tongue shall vtter no deceite.

5 Far be it from me that I should judge you to be right, for, until I expire, I will not withdraw from my innocence.

God forbid, that I should iustifie you: vntill I dye, I will neuer take away mine innocencie from my selfe.

6 I will not forsake my justification, which I have just begun to grasp, for my heart does not find blame for me in my whole life.

I will keepe my righteousnesse, and wil not forsake it: mine heart shall not reprooue me of my dayes.

7 Let the impious be as my enemy, and the sinful, as my adversary.

Mine enemie shall be as the wicked, and he that riseth against me, as the vnrighteous.

8 For what hope is there for the hypocrite, if he greedily plunders and God does not free his soul?

For what hope hath the hypocrite when he hath heaped vp riches, if God take away his soule?

9 Will God pay attention to his cry, when anguish overcomes him?

Will God heare his cry, when trouble commeth vpon him?

10 Or will he take delight in the Almighty and call upon God at all times?

Will he set his delight on the Almightie? will he call vpon God at all times?

11 I will teach you through the hand of God, what the Almighty holds, and I will not conceal it.

I will teache you what is in the hande of God, and I wil not conceale that which is with the Almightie.

12 Behold, you know all this, and so why do you speak vain things without a reason?

Beholde, all ye your selues haue seene it: why then doe you thus vanish in vanitie?

13 This is the portion of the impious man with God, and the inheritance of the violent, which they will receive from the Almighty.

This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of tyrants, which they shall receiue of the Almightie.

14 If his sons should happen to increase, they will be for the sword, and his grandsons will not be satisfied with bread.

If his children be in great nomber, the sworde shall destroy them, and his posteritie shall not be satisfied with bread.

15 Whatever will remain of him will be buried in the ruins, and his widows will not weep.

His remnant shall be buried in death, and his widowes shall not weepe.

16 If he will amass silver as if it were dirt and fabricate garments as if they were clay,

Though he shoulde heape vp siluer as the dust, and prepare rayment as the clay,

17 then yes, he will gather, but the just will be clothed with it and the innocent will divide the silver.

He may prepare it, but the iust shall put it on, and the innocent shall deuide the siluer.

18 He has built his house like a moth, and he has made a makeshift shelter like a sentry.

He buildeth his house as the moth, and as a lodge that the watchman maketh.

19 When he falls asleep, the rich man will leave him with nothing; he will open his eyes and find nothing.

When the rich man sleepeth, he shall not be gathered to his fathers: they opened their eyes, and he was gone.

20 Destitution will surround him like water; a storm will overwhelm him in the night.

Terrours shall take him as waters, and a tempest shall cary him away by night.

21 A burning wind will pick him up and carry him away, and, like a whirlwind, it will rush him from his place.

The East winde shall take him away, and he shall depart: and it shall hurle him out of his place.

22 And it will hurl over him and will not spare him; fleeing from its power, he will go into exile.

And God shall cast vpon him and not spare, though he would faine flee out of his hand.

23 He will clasp his hands over himself, and he will hiss at himself, while considering his situation.

Euery man shall clap their hands at him, and hisse at him out of their place.