The Bible and Holy Scriptures conteyned in the Olde and Newe Testament. Translated according to the Ebrue and Greke, and conferred with the best translations in diuers languges. VVith moste profitable annotations vpon all the hard places, and other things of great importance as may appeare in the epistle to the reader

CHAP. XX.

1 Zophár sheweth, that the wicked and the couetous shall haue a shorte end. 22 Thogh for a time they florish,

1 THen answered Zophár the Naamathite and said,

2 Douteles my thoghts cause me to answer, & therefore I make haste.

3 I haue hearda the correction of my repro∣che: therefore the spirit of mine vnderstan∣ding causeth me to answer.

4 Knowest thou not this of olde? (and) since (God) placed man vpon the 〈◊〉〈◊〉

5 That the reioycing of the wicked (is) shorte, and that the ioye of hypocrites is but a mo∣ment?

6 Thoghb his excellencie mounte vp to the heauen, and his head reache vnto the clou∣des,

7 (Yet) shal he perish for euer, like his dung, (and) they which haue sene him, shal say, Where is he.

8 He shal flee away as a dreame, and thei shall not finde him, and shal passe away as a vision of the night.

9 So that the eye which had sene him, shaldo so no more, and his place shal se him no mo∣re.

10 His children shalc fkatter tge poore, and his hands 〈◊〉〈◊〉d restore his substance.

11 His bones are ful (of the sinne) of his youth, ande shall ye downe with him in the dust.

12 Whē wickednesf was swete in his mouthe, (and) he did it vnder his tongue,

13 (And) fauoured it, and wolde not forsake it but kept it close in his mouth,

14 (Thē) his meat in his bowels was turned: the gall of aspes (was) in the middes of him.

15 He hathe deuoured substance, and he shall vomit it: (for) God shal drawe it out of his belly.

16 He shal sucke theg gall of aspes, (and) the vipers tongue shal slaye him.

17 He shal not se theh riuers, (nor) the floods (and) streames of hony and butter.

18 He shal restore the labour, and shal deuoure nomore: (euen) according to the substance (shalbe) his exchange,i and he shal enioye it nomore.

19 For he hathe vndone (manie): he hathe for∣saken the poore, (and) hathe spoiled houses which he buylded not.

20 Surely he shal fele no quietnes in his body, (nether) shal he reserue of that which he de∣sired.

21 There shal none of hisk meat be left: there∣fore

none shal hope for his goods.

22 When he shalbe filled with his abundāce, he shalbe in peine, (and) the hādl of all the wicked shal assaile him.

23 He shalbe about to fil his belly, (but God) shal send vpon him his fearce wrath,m and I shal cause to raine vpon him, (euen) vpon his meat.

24 He shall flee from the yron weapons, (&) the bowe of stele shal strike him through.

25 (The arowe) is drawen out, and cometh forthe of then body, and shineth of his gal, (so) feare cometh vpon him.

26 o All darkenes shalbe hid in hys secret places: the fyre that is notp blowen, shall deuoure him, (and) that which remaineth in his tabernacle, shalbe destroied.

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

28 Theq increase of his house shal go awaye: it shal flowe away in the daye of his wrath,

29 Thys is the porcion of the wycked man fromr God, and the heritage (that he shall haue) of God for hiss wordes.

Notes

• a

  He declareth that two things moued him to speake: to Wit, be∣cause Iob semed to touche him, & because he thoght he had knowled ge sufficient to confute him.
• b

  His purpose is to proue Iob to be a Wicked man and an hypocri∣te, because God punished him, & changed his 〈◊〉〈◊〉 into ad∣uersitie,
• c

  Where as the fa ther through am bition and tyran nie 〈◊〉〈◊〉 pressed the poore, the chil∣dren through po∣uertie and mise∣rie shal 〈◊〉〈◊〉 fa∣uour at the pore.
• d

  So that the thing, Which he hathe takē away by violence, shal∣be 〈◊〉〈◊〉 agai∣ne by force.
• e

  Meaning, that he shal cary no∣thing a Way With him, but his sinne
• f

  As poyson that is swere in the mouthe bringeth destruction, Whē it cometh into the body: so all vice at the first is pleasant, but after Ward God tur∣neth it to destru∣ction.
• g

  He compareth euil 〈◊〉〈◊〉 goods to the venim of aspes, Which ser∣pent is moste dā gerous: nothing that Iobs great riches Were not truely come by, and therefore God did plague him iustely for the same.
• h

  Thogh God gi∣ue to all other 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of his blessings, yet he shal haue no par te thereof.
• i

  That is, thesera neners and spoi∣lers of the poore shal enioye their 〈◊〉〈◊〉 but for a 〈◊〉〈◊〉 after God Wil take it frome them & cause thē to make restitutiō so that it is but an exchange.
• k

  He shall leaue nothing to hys posteritie.
• l

  The Wicked shal neuer be in rest: for one Wicked man shall seke to destroy another.
• m

  Some read, vpō his flesh, alluding to Iob, whose flesh Was smiten with a scabbe.
• n

  Some read, of the quiuer.
• o

  All feare & so∣row shall light vpon him, Whē he thīketh to escape.
• p

  That is, fyre frō heauen, or the fire of Gods Wrath.
• q

  Meaning, the children of the Wicked shal flow awayelike riuers and be dispersed indiuers places.
• r

  Thus God Wyll plague thewicked
• s

  Agaynste God, thinking to excu∣se him self & to es cape Gods hand.