Chapter Text
27:1 Moreouer Iob proceeded and continued his parable, saying,
27:2 The liuing God hath taken away my iudgement: for the Almightie hath put my soule in bitternesse.
27:3 Yet so long as my breath is in me, and the Spirit of God in my nostrels,
27:4 My lips surely shall speake no wickednesse, and my tongue shall vtter no deceite.
27:5 God forbid, that I should iustifie you: vntill I dye, I will neuer take away mine innocencie from my selfe.
27:6 I will keepe my righteousnesse, and wil not forsake it: mine heart shall not reprooue me of my dayes.
27:7 Mine enemie shall be as the wicked, and he that riseth against me, as the vnrighteous.
27:8 For what hope hath the hypocrite when he hath heaped vp riches, if God take away his soule?
27:9 Will God heare his cry, when trouble commeth vpon him?
27:10 Will he set his delight on the Almightie? will he call vpon God at all times?
27:11 I will teache you what is in the hande of God, and I wil not conceale that which is with the Almightie.
27:12 Beholde, all ye your selues haue seene it: why then doe you thus vanish in vanitie?
27:13 This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of tyrants, which they shall receiue of the Almightie.
27:14 If his children be in great nomber, the sworde shall destroy them, and his posteritie shall not be satisfied with bread.
27:15 His remnant shall be buried in death, and his widowes shall not weepe.
27:16 Though he shoulde heape vp siluer as the dust, and prepare rayment as the clay,
27:17 He may prepare it, but the iust shall put it on, and the innocent shall deuide the siluer.
27:18 He buildeth his house as the moth, and as a lodge that the watchman maketh.
27:19 When the rich man sleepeth, he shall not be gathered to his fathers: they opened their eyes, and he was gone.
27:20 Terrours shall take him as waters, and a tempest shall cary him away by night.
27:21 The East winde shall take him away, and he shall depart: and it shall hurle him out of his place.
27:22 And God shall cast vpon him and not spare, though he would faine flee out of his hand.
27:23 Euery man shall clap their hands at him, and hisse at him out of their place.