seas are gathered together, and with his wisdom he strucke the proud man. 13His spirite hath adorned the heauens, & his hand being the midwife, the [1] winding serpent is brought forth. 14Loe, these things are sayd in part of his waies: and where as we haue heard scarce a litle drop of his word, who shal be able to behold the thunder of his greatnes?
CHAP. XXVII.
IOB also added, taking his parable, and sayd: 2God liueth, who hath [2] taken away my iudgement, and the Omnipotent, which hath brought my soule to bitternesse. 3That as long as breath remaineth in me, and the spirit of God in my nosthrels, 4My lippes shal not speake iniquitie, neither shal my tongue meditate [3] lying. 5God forbid that I should iudge you to be iust: til I faile, I wil not depart from my innocencie. 6My iustification which I haue begune to hold, I wil not forsake: for my hart doth not reprehend me in al my life. 7Let mine enemie be as the impious, and mine aduersarie as the wicked one. 8For what is the hipocrites hope, if couetousely he take by violence, and God deliuer not his soule? 9Wil God heare his crie, when distresse shal come vpon him? 10Or can he be delighted in the Omnipotent, and inuocate God at al time? 11I wil teach you by the hand of God, what the Omnipotent hath, neither wil I hide it. 12Loe, you doe al know, and why speake you vaine things without cause? 13This is the portion of an impious man with God, and inheritance of the violent, which they shal receiue of the Omnipotent. 14If his children be multiplied, they shal be in the sword, & nephewes shal not be filled with bread. 15They that shal be least of him, shal be buried in death, and his widowes shal not weepe. 16If he shal heape together siluer as earth, and as clay shal prepare garments: 17He shal prepare indeed, but the iust man shal be clothed with them: and the innocent shal diuide the siluer. 18He hath built his house as a moth, and as a keeper hath he made a bowre. 19The rich man [4] when he shal sleep shal take away nothing with him: he shal open his eies, and finde nothing. 20Pouertie as water shal apprehend him, in the night a tempest shal oppresse him. 21The burning wind shal take him vp, and cary him away, and as a whirlewinde shal pul him violently out of his place. 22And he shal cast vpon him, and shal not spare: out of his hand flying he shal flye. 23He shal claspe his hands vpon him, and shal hisse vpon him, beholding his place.
- ↑ Not only great things before recited but also the very least are made by God and depend vpon his prouidence.
- ↑ God would not as yet haue Iobs cause iudged, but reserued the sentence; for his greater trial in patience.
- ↑ It were a lie to acknowledge such sinnes has he had not committed.
- ↑ Some part of Gods iudgement falleth on the wicked in this life, but especially at their death. Psal. 75.
