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