since man was placed vpon the earth, 5That the praise of the impious is ∷[1] short, and the ioy of the hypocrite as it were for a moment: 6If his pride rise vp euen to the heauen, and his head touch the cloudes: 7As a dunghil in the end he shal be destroyed, and they that had sene him, shal say: Where is he? 8As a dreame that fleeth away he shal not be found, he shal passe as a vision by night: 9The eie that had sene him, shal not see him, neither shal his place behold him anie more. 10His children shal come to naught with pouertie, and his handes shal render him his sorow. 11His bones shal be filled with the vices of his youth, and they shal sleepe with him in the dust. 12For when euil shal be sweete in his mouth, he wil hide it vnder his tongue. 13He wil spare it, and not leaue it, and wil hide it in his throte. 14His bread in his belly shal be turned into the gaule of aspes within him. 15The riches, which he hath deuoured, he shal vomite out, and God shal draw them forth out of his belly. 16He shal sucke the head of aspes, and the vipers tongue shal kil him. 17(Let him not see the streames of the riuer, the torrentes of honie, and of butter.) 18He shal be punished for al thinges that he did, & yet not be cōsumed: according to the multitude of his inuentions so also shal he suffer. 19Because breaking in he hath made the poore naked: he hath violently taken house, & built it not. 20Neither is his bellie filled: and when he shal haue the thinges he coueted, he can not possesse them. 21There remayned not of his meate, & therfore nothing shal continewe of his goodes: 22When he shal be filled, he shal be straytened, he shal burne, and al sorow shal fal vpon him. 23Would God his belly were filled, that he may send forth the wrath of his furie vpon him, and rayne his battel vpon him, 24He shal flee wepons of yron, and shal fal vpon a bowe of brasse. 25The sword plucked out, and coming forth of his scabbard, and glistering in his bitternesse: the horrible shal goe and come vpon him. 26Al darkenesse is hid in his secretes: fyre that is not kindled shal deuoure him, he shal be afflicted leaft in his tabernacle. 27The heauens shal reuele his iniquitie, and the earth shal rise against him. 28The blossome of his house shal be opened, he shal be plucked downe in the day of Gods furie. 29This the portion of an impious man from God, & the inheritance of his wordes from our Lord.
- ↑ Al mans life is short and as a moment in comparison of eternetie; but it is not alwayes true that the wiked are shortly punished in respect of this life, as this disputer applieth it to proue Iob to impious. Therfore Iob answereth in the next chapter. v. 13. That ordinarily the wicked, lead their dayes (to witt their whole life) in a moment goe downe to hell. So the rest of these mens assertions are for most part true in some sense but il applied.
