More and more Job confirmeth his innocency, avouching that God not presently judging. 11. Will in time condemn the wicked.More and more Iob confirmeth his innocencie, auouching that God not presently iudging. 11. Wil in time condemne the wicked.✦
Job also added, taking his parabolam: his figurative discourse, a proverb-speech, and said:IOb also added, taking his parable, and sayd:Addidit quoque Job, assumens parabolam suam, et dixit :
2God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment, and the Omnipotent, which hath brought my soul to bitterness.God liueth, who hath taken away my iudgement, and the Omnipotent, which hath brought my soule to bitternesse.✦Vivit Deus, qui abstulit judicium meum, et Omnipotens, qui ad amaritudinem adduxit animam meam.
3That as long as breath remaineth in me, and the spirit of God in my nostrils,That as long as breath remaineth in me, and the spirit of God in my nosthrels,✦Quia donec superest halitus in me, et spiritus Dei in naribus meis,
4My lips shall not speak iniquity, neither shall my tongue meditate lying.My lippes shal not speake iniquitie, neither shal my tongue meditate lying.non loquentur labia mea iniquitatem, nec lingua mea meditabitur mendacium.
5God forbid that I should judge you to be just: till I fail, I will not depart from mine innocency.God forbid that I should iudge you to be iust: til I faile, I wil not departe from mine innocencie.✦Absit a me ut justos vos esse judicem : donec deficiam, non recedam ab innocentia mea.
6My justification which I have begun to hold, I will not forsake: for my heart doth not reprehendit: rebuke; reprove, find fault with, convict me in all my life.My iustification which I haue begune to hold, I wil not forsake: for my hart doth not reprehend me in al my life.✦Justificationem meam, quam cœpi tenere, non deseram : neque enim reprehendit me cor meum in omni vita mea.
7Let mine enemy be as the impius: the ungodly, the wicked sinner, and mine adversary as the wicked one.Let mine enemie be as the impions, and mine aduersarie as the wicked one.✦Sit ut impius, inimicus meus, et adversarius meus quasi iniquus.
8For what is the hypocrite's hope if covetously he take by violence, and God deliver not his soul?For what is the hypocrites hope if couetously he take by violence, and God deliuer not his soule?✦Quæ est enim spes hypocritæ, si avare rapiat, et non liberet Deus animam ejus ?
9Will God hear his cry, when distress shall come upon him?Wil God heare his crie, when distresse shal come vpon him?Numquid Deus audiet clamorem ejus, cum venerit super eum angustia ?
10Or can he be delighted in the Omnipotent, and invocare: call upon, invoke God at all time?Or can he be delighted in the Omnipotent, and inuocate God at al time?✦aut poterit in Omnipotente delectari, et invocare Deum omni tempore ?
11I will teach you by the hand of God, what the Omnipotent hath, neither will I hide it.I wil teach you by the hand of God, what the Omnipotent hath, neither wil I hide it.Docebo vos per manum Dei quæ Omnipotens habeat, nec abscondam.
12Lo, you do all know, and why speak you vain things without cause.Loe, you doe al knowe, and why speake you vaine thinges without cause.✦Ecce vos omnes nostis : et quid sine causa vana loquimini ?
13This is the portion of an impious man with God, and inheritance of the violent, which they shall receive of the Omnipotent.This is the portion of an impions man with God, and inheritance of the violent, which they shal receiue of the Omnipotent.Hæc est pars hominis impii apud Deum, et hæreditas violentorum, quam ob Omnipotente suscipient.
14If his children be multiplied, they shall be in the sword, and nepotes: a sibling's children; grandsons, descendants, posterity shall not be filled with bread.If his children be multiplied, they shal be in the sword, & nephewes shal not be filled with bread.✦Si multiplicati fuerint filii ejus, in gladio erunt, et nepotes ejus non saturabuntur pane :
15They that shall be reliqui: those remaining, the survivors of him, shall be buried in death, and his widows shall not weep.They that shal be leaft of him, shal be buried in death, and his widowes shal not weepe.✦qui reliqui fuerint ex eo sepelientur in interitu, et viduæ illius non plorabunt.
16If he shall heap together silver as earth, and as clay shall prepare garments:If he shal heape together siluer as earth, and as clay shal prepare garmentes:Si comportaverit quasi terram argentum, et sicut lutum præparaverit vestimenta :
17He shall prepare in deed, but the just man shall be clothed with them: and the innocent shall divide the silver.He shal prepare in deede, but the iust man shal be clothed with them: and the innocent shal diuide the siluer.præparabit quidem, sed justus vestietur illis, et argentum innocens dividet.
18He hath built his house as a moth, and as a keeper hath he made a umbraculum: a leafy shelter, a booth of branches.He hath built his house as a moth, and as a keeper hath he made a bowre.✦Ædificavit sicut tinea domum suam, et sicut custos fecit umbraculum.
19The rich man when he shall sleep shall take away nothing with him: he shall open his eyes, and find nothing.The rich man when he shal sleepe shal take away nothing with him: he shal oppen his eies, & finde nothing.✦Dives, cum dormierit, nihil secum auferet : aperiet oculos suos, et nihil inveniet.
20Poverty as water shall apprehend him, in the night a tempest shall oppress him.Pouertie as water shal apprehend him, in the night a tempest shal oppresse him.✦Apprehendet eum quasi aqua inopia : nocte opprimet eum tempestas.
21The burning wind shall take him up, and carry him away, and as a whirlwind shall pull him violently out of his place.The burning wind shal take him vp, and cary him away, and as a whirlewinde shal pul him violently out of his place.Tollet eum ventus urens, et auferet, et velut turbo rapiet eum de loco suo.
22And he shall cast upon him, and shall not spare: out of his hand fleeing he shall flee.And he shal cast vpon him, and shal not spare: out of his hand fleing he shal flee.✦Et mittet super eum, et non parcet : de manu ejus fugiens fugiet.
23He shall clasp his hands upon him, and shall hiss upon him, beholding his place.He shal claspe his handes vpon him, and shal hisse vpon him, beholding his place.✦Stringet super eum manus suas, et sibilabit super illum, intuens locum ejus.
The reading text follows the 1582 first edition.