Job 27

¹Moreouer Iob proceeded and continued his parable, saying,

²The liuing God hath taken away my iudgement: for the Almightie hath put my soule in bitternesse.

³Yet so long as my breath is in me, and the Spirit of God in my nostrels,

⁴My lips surely shall speake no wickednesse, and my tongue shall vtter no deceite.

⁵God forbid, that I should iustifie you: vntill I dye, I will neuer take away mine innocencie from my selfe.

⁶I will keepe my righteousnesse, and wil not forsake it: mine heart shall not reprooue me of my dayes.

⁷Mine enemie shall be as the wicked, and he that riseth against me, as the vnrighteous.

⁸For what hope hath the hypocrite when he hath heaped vp riches, if God take away his soule?

⁹Will God heare his cry, when trouble commeth vpon him?

¹⁰Will he set his delight on the Almightie? will he call vpon God at all times?

¹¹I will teache you what is in the hande of God, and I wil not conceale that which is with the Almightie.

¹²Beholde, all ye your selues haue seene it: why then doe you thus vanish in vanitie?

¹³This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of tyrants, which they shall receiue of the Almightie.

¹⁴If his children be in great nomber, the sworde shall destroy them, and his posteritie shall not be satisfied with bread.

¹⁵His remnant shall be buried in death, and his widowes shall not weepe.

¹⁶Though he shoulde heape vp siluer as the dust, and prepare rayment as the clay,