The Bible (Old and New Testaments)

He hath deuoured substance, and hee shall vomit it: for God shall drawe it out of his bellie.

He shall sucke the gall of Aspes, and the vipers tongue shall slay him.

He shall not see the riuers, nor the floods and streames of honie and butter.

He shall restore the labour, and shall deuoure no more: euen according to the substance shalbe his exchange, and he shall enioy it no more.

For he hath vndone many: he hath forsaken the poore, and hath spoyled houses which he builded not.

Surely he shall feele no quietnes in his bodie, neither shall he reserue of that which he desired.

There shall none of his meate bee left: therefore none shall hope for his goods.

When he shalbe filled with his abundance, he shalbe in paine, and the hand of all the wicked shall assaile him.

He shall be about to fill his belly, but God shall sende vpon him his fierce wrath, and shall cause to rayne vpon him, euen vpon his meate.

He shall flee from the yron weapons, and the bow of steele shall strike him through.

The arrowe is drawen out, and commeth forth of the body, and shineth of his gall, so feare commeth vpon him.

All darkenes shalbe hid in his secret places: the fire that is not blowen, shall deuoure him, and that which remaineth in his tabernacle, shalbe destroyed.

The heauen shall declare his wickednes, and the earth shall rise vp against him.

The increase of his house shall go away: it shall flow away in the day of his wrath.

This is the portion of the wicked man from God, and the heritage that he shall haue of God for his wordes.

Bvt Iob answered, and sayd,

Heare diligently my wordes, and this shalbe in stead of your consolations.

Suffer mee, that I may speake, and when I haue spoken, mocke on.

Doe I direct my talke to man? If it were so, how should not my spirit be troubled?

Marke mee, and be abashed, and lay your hand vpon your mouth.

Euen when I remember, I am afrayde, and feare taketh hold on my flesh.

Wherefore do the wicked liue, and waxe olde, and grow in wealth?

Their seede is established in their sight with them, and their generation before their eyes.

Their houses are peaceable without feare, and the rod of God is not vpon them.

Their bullocke gendreth, and fayleth not: their cow calueth, and casteth not her calfe.

They send forth their children like sheepe, and their sonnes dance.

They take the tabret and harpe, and reioyce in the sound of the organs.

They spend their dayes in wealth, and suddenly they go downe to the graue.

They say also vnto God, Depart from vs: for we desire not the knowledge of thy wayes.

Who is the Almightie, that we should serue him? and what profit should we haue, if we should pray vnto him?

Lo, their wealth is not in their hand: therfore let the counsell of the wicked bee farre from me.

How oft shall the candle of the wicked be put out? and their destruction come vpon them? he wil deuide their liues in his wrath.

They shall be as stubble before the winde, and as chaffe that the storme carieth away.

God wil lay vp the sorowe of the father for his children: when he rewardeth him, hee shall knowe it.

His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drinke of the wrath of the Almightie.

For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the nomber of his moneths is cut off?

Shall any teache God knowledge, who iudgeth the highest things?

One dyeth in his full strength, being in all ease and prosperitie.

His breasts are full of milke, and his bones runne full of marowe.

And another dieth in the bitternes of his soule, and neuer eateth with pleasure.

They shall sleepe both in the dust, and the wormes shall couer them.

Behold, I know your thoughts, and the enterprises, wherewith ye do me wrong.

For ye say, Where is the princes house? and where is the tabernacle of the wickeds dwelling?

May ye not aske the that go by the way? and ye can not deny their signes.

But the wicked is kept vnto the day of destruction, and they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.

Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall reward him for that he hath done?

Yet shall he be brought to the graue, and remaine in the heape.

The slimie valley shalbe sweete vnto him, and euery man shall draw after him, as before him there were innumerable.

How then comfort ye me in vaine, seeing in your answeres there remaine but lyes?

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, and sayde,

May a man be profitable vnto God, as he that is wise, may be profitable to himselfe?

Is it any thing vnto the Almightie, that thou art righteous? or is it profitable to him, that thou makest thy wayes vpright?

Is it for feare of thee that he will accuse thee? or go with thee into iudgement?

Is not thy wickednes great, and thine iniquities innumerable?

For thou hast taken the pledge from thy brother for nought, and spoyled the clothes of the naked.

To such as were wearie, thou hast not giuen water to drinke, and hast withdrawen bread from the hungrie.

But the mightie man had the earth, and he that was in autoritie, dwelt in it.

Thou hast cast out widowes emptie, and the armes of the fatherles were broken.

Therefore snares are round about thee, and feare shall suddenly trouble thee:

Or darkenes that thou shouldest not see, and abundance of waters shall couer thee.

Is not God on hie in the heauen? and behold the height of the starres how hie they are.

But thou sayest, How should God know? can he iudge through the darke cloude?

The cloudes hide him that he can not see, and he walketh in the circle of heauen.

Hast thou marked the way of the worlde, wherein wicked men haue walked?

Which were cut downe before the time, whose foundation was as a riuer that ouerflowed:

Which sayd vnto God, Depart from vs, and asked what the Almightie could do for them.

Yet hee filled their houses with good things: but let the counsell of the wicked be farre from me.

The righteous shall see them, and shall reioyce, and the innocent shall laugh them to scorne.

Surely our substance is hid: but the fire hath deuoured the remnant of them.

Therefore acquaint thy selfe, I pray thee, with him, and make peace: thereby thou shalt haue prosperitie.

Receiue, I pray thee, the law of his mouth, and lay vp his words in thine heart.

If thou returne to the Almightie, thou shalt be buylt vp, and thou shalt put iniquitie farre from thy tabernacle.

Thou shalt lay vp golde for dust, and the gold of Ophir, as the flintes of the riuers.

Yea, the Almightie shalbe thy defence, and thou shalt haue plentie of siluer.

And thou shalt then delite in the Almightie, and lift vp thy face vnto God.

Thou shalt make thy praier vnto him, and he shall heare thee, and thou shalt render thy vowes.

Thou shalt also decree a thing, and he shall establish it vnto thee, and the light shall shine vpon thy wayes.

When others are cast downe, then shalt thou say, I am lifted vp: and God shall saue the humble person.

The innocent shall deliuer the yland, and it shalbe preserued by the purenes of thine hands.

Bvt Iob answered and sayd,

Though my talke be this day in bitternes, and my plague greater then my groning,

Would God yet I knew how to finde him, I would enter vnto his place.

I would pleade the cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.

I would knowe the wordes, that he would answere me, and would vnderstand what he would say vnto me.

Would he plead against me with his great power? No, but he would put strength in me.

There the righteous might reason with him, so I shoulde be deliuered for euer from my Iudge.

Behold, if I go to the East, he is not there: if to the West, yet I can not perceiue him:

If to the North where he worketh, yet I cannot see him: he wil hide himselfe in the South, and I cannot beholde him.

But he knoweth my way, and trieth mee, and I shall come forth like the gold.

My foote hath followed his steps: his way haue I kept, and haue not declined.

Neyther haue I departed from the commandement of his lippes, and I haue esteemed the words of his mouth more then mine appointed foode.

Yet he is in one minde, and who can turne him? yea, he doeth what his minde desireth.

For he will performe that, which is decreed of me, and many such things are with him.

Therefore I am troubled at his presence, and in considering it, I am afraid of him.

For God hath softened mine heart, and the Almightie hath troubled me.

For I am not cut off in darknesse, but he hath hid the darkenesse from my face.

Howe should not the times be hid from the Almightie, seeing that they which knowe him, see not his dayes?

Some remoue the land marks, that rob the flockes and feede thereof.

They leade away the asse of the fatherles: and take the widowes oxe to pledge.

They make the poore to turne out of the way, so that the poore of the earth hide themselues together.