Geneva1599 - Job - 27

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.