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Job 27

3 The constancie and perfitnes of Job. 13 The rewarde of the wicked and of the tyrants.
1.Moreover Job proceded & continued his parable, saying,
2.The living God hathe taken away my judgement: for the Almightie hathe put my soule in bitternes.
3.Yet so long as my breath is in me, and the Spirit of God in my nostrels,
4.My lips surely shal speake no wickednes, and my tongue shal utter no deceit.
5.God forbid, that I shulde justifie you: until I dye, I wil never take away mine innocencie from my self.
6.I wil kepe my righteousnes, and wil not forsake it: mine heart shal not reprove me of my dayes.
7.Mine enemie shalbe as the wicked, & he that riseth against me, as the unrighteous.
8.For what hope hathe the hypocrite when he hathe heaped up riches, if God take away his soule?
9.Wil God heare his crye, when trouble cometh upon him?
10.Wil he set his delite on the Almightie? wil he call upon God at all times?
11.I wil teach you what is in the hand of God, and I wil not conceil that which is with the Almightie.
12.Beholde, all ye your selves have sene it: why then do you thus vanish in vanitie? The rewarde of the wicked. Job. 27:
13.This is the porcion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of tyrants, which they shal receive of the Almightie.
14.If his children be in great nomber, the sworde shal destroy them, and his posteritie shal not be satisfied with bread.
15.His remnant shal be buryed in death, and his widowes shal not wepe.
16.Thogh he shulde heape up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay,
17.He may prepare it, but the juste shal put it on, and the innocent shal devide the silver.
18.He buyldeth his house as the mothe, and as a lodge that the watchman maketh.
19.When the riche man slepeth, he shal not be gathered to his fathers: they opened their eyes, and he was gone.
20.Terrours shal take him as waters, and a tempest shal carie him away by night.
21.The East wind shal take him away, and he shal departe: and it shal hurlle him out of his place.
22.And God shal cast upon him and not spare, thogh he wolde faine flee out of his hand.
23.Everie man shal clap their hands at him, and hisse at him out of their place.

Notes

2-a.
He has so sore afflicted me, that men can not judge of my uprightness: for they judge only by outward signs.
4-b.
Howsoever men judge of me, yet will I not speak contrary to that, which I have said, and so do wickedly in betraying the truth.
5-c.
Which condemn me as a wicked man, because the hand of God is upon me.
5-d.
I will not confess that God does thus punish me for my sins.
6-e.
Of my life past.
8-f.
What advantage has the dissembler to gain never so much, seeing he shall loose his own soul?
11-g.
That is, what God reserves to himself, and whereof he gives not the knowledge to all.
12-h.
That is, these secret judgements of God, and yet do not under- stand them.
12-i.
Why maintain you then this error? 8
13-k.
Thus will God order the wicked, and punish him even unto his posterity.
15-l.
None shall lament him.
18-m.
Which breeds in another man’s possessions or garment, but is soon shaken out.
19-n.
He means that the wicked tyrants shall not have a quite death, nor be buried honourably.