| 27:1 |
Job again took up his parable, and said, |
| 27:2 |
"As God lives, who has taken away my right, the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter. |
| 27:3 |
(For the length of my life is still in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils); |
| 27:4 |
surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, neither shall my tongue utter deceit. |
| 27:5 |
Far be it from me that I should justify you. Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me. |
| 27:6 |
I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart shall not reproach me so long as I live. |
| 27:7 |
"Let my enemy be as the wicked. Let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous. |
| 27:8 |
For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life? |
| 27:9 |
Will God hear his cry when trouble comes on him? |
| 27:10 |
Will he delight himself in the Almighty, and call on God at all times? |
| 27:11 |
I will teach you about the hand of God. That which is with the Almighty will I not conceal. |
| 27:12 |
Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves; why then have you become altogether vain? |
| 27:13 |
"This is the portion of a wicked man with God, the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty. |
| 27:14 |
If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword. His offspring shall not be satisfied with bread. |
| 27:15 |
Those who remain of him shall be buried in death. His widows shall make no lamentation. |
| 27:16 |
Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare clothing as the clay; |
| 27:17 |
he may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver. |
| 27:18 |
He builds his house as the moth, as a booth which the watchman makes. |
| 27:19 |
He lies down rich, but he shall not do so again. He opens his eyes, and he is not. |
| 27:20 |
Terrors overtake him like waters. A storm steals him away in the night. |
| 27:21 |
The east wind carries him away, and he departs. It sweeps him out of his place. |
| 27:22 |
For it hurls at him, and does not spare, as he flees away from his hand. |
| 27:23 |
Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place. |
