Job 27
1 Moreouer Iob proceeded and continued his parable, saying,
And Job adds to lift up his allegory and says:
2 The liuing God hath taken away my iudgement: for the Almightie hath put my soule in bitternesse.
“God lives! He turned aside my judgment, And the Mighty—He made my soul bitter.
3 Yet so long as my breath is in me, and the Spirit of God in my nostrels,
For all the while my breath [is] in me, And the wind of God in my nostrils.
4 My lips surely shall speake no wickednesse, and my tongue shall vtter no deceite.
My lips do not speak perverseness, And my tongue does not utter deceit.
5 God forbid, that I should iustifie you: vntill I dye, I will neuer take away mine innocencie from my selfe.
Defilement to me—if I justify you, Until I expire I do not turn aside my integrity from me.
6 I will keepe my righteousnesse, and wil not forsake it: mine heart shall not reprooue me of my dayes.
On my righteousness I have laid hold, And I do not let it go, My heart does not reproach me while I live.
7 Mine enemie shall be as the wicked, and he that riseth against me, as the vnrighteous.
My enemy is as the wicked, And my withstander as the perverse.
8 For what hope hath the hypocrite when he hath heaped vp riches, if God take away his soule?
For what [is] the hope of the profane, When He cuts off? When God casts off his soul?
9 Will God heare his cry, when trouble commeth vpon him?
[Does] God hear his cry, When distress comes on him?
10 Will he set his delight on the Almightie? will he call vpon God at all times?
Does he delight himself on the Mighty? Call God at all times?
11 I will teache you what is in the hande of God, and I wil not conceale that which is with the Almightie.
I show you by the hand of God, That which [is] with the Mighty I do not hide.
12 Beholde, all ye your selues haue seene it: why then doe you thus vanish in vanitie?
Behold, you—all of you—have seen, And why [is] this—you are altogether vain?
13 This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of tyrants, which they shall receiue of the Almightie.
This [is] the portion of wicked man with God, And the inheritance of terrible ones They receive from the Mighty.
14 If his children be in great nomber, the sworde shall destroy them, and his posteritie shall not be satisfied with bread.
If his sons multiply—a sword [is] for them. And his offspring [are] not satisfied [with] bread.
15 His remnant shall be buried in death, and his widowes shall not weepe.
His remnant are buried in death, And his widows do not weep.
16 Though he shoulde heape vp siluer as the dust, and prepare rayment as the clay,
If he heaps up silver as dust, And prepares clothing as clay,
17 He may prepare it, but the iust shall put it on, and the innocent shall deuide the siluer.
He prepares—and the righteous puts [it] on, And the innocent apportions the silver.
18 He buildeth his house as the moth, and as a lodge that the watchman maketh.
He has built his house as a moth, And as a shelter a watchman has made.
19 When the rich man sleepeth, he shall not be gathered to his fathers: they opened their eyes, and he was gone.
He lies down rich, and he is not gathered, He has opened his eyes, and he is not.
20 Terrours shall take him as waters, and a tempest shall cary him away by night.
Terrors overtake him as waters, By night a whirlwind has stolen him away.
21 The East winde shall take him away, and he shall depart: and it shall hurle him out of his place.
An east wind takes him up, and he goes, And it frightens him from his place,
22 And God shall cast vpon him and not spare, though he would faine flee out of his hand.
And it casts at him, and does not spare, He diligently flees from its hand.
23 Euery man shall clap their hands at him, and hisse at him out of their place.
It claps its hands at him, And it hisses at him from his place.”
