Job 27

1 Job also added, taking up his parable, and said:

Moreouer Iob proceeded and continued his parable, saying,

2 As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment, and the Almighty, who hath brought 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 breath remaineth in me, and the spirit of God in my nostrils,

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

4 My lips shall not speak iniquity, neither shall my tongue contrive lying.

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

5 God forbid that I should judge you to be just: till I die I will not depart from my innocence.

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

6 My justification, which I have begun to hold, I will not forsake: for my heart doth not reprehend me in all my life.

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

7 Let my enemy be as the ungodly, and my adversary as the wicked one.

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

8 For what is the hope of the hypocrite if through covetousness he take by violence, and God deliver not his soul?

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

9 Will God hear his cry, when distress shall come upon him?

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

10 Or can he delight himself 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 by the hand of God, what the Almighty hath, 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 all know it, and why do you speak vain things without cause?

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

13 This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the inheritance of the violent, which they shall receive of 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 be multiplied, they shall be for the sword, and his grandsons shall not be filled with bread.

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

15 They that shall remain of him, shall be buried in death, and his widows shall not weep.

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

16 If he shall heap together silver as earth, and prepare raiment as clay,

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

17 He shall prepare indeed, but the just man shall be clothed with it: and the innocent shall divide the silver.

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

18 He hath built his house as a moth, and as a keeper he hath made a booth.

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

19 The rich man when he shall sleep shall take away nothing with him: he shall 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 Poverty like water shall take hold on him, a tempest shall oppress him in the night.

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

21 A burning wind shall take him up, and carry him away, and as a whirlwind shall snatch 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 he shall cast upon him, and shall not spare: out of his hand he would willingly flee.

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

23 He shall clasp his hands upon him, and shall hiss at him, beholding his place.

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