【Job】Chapter 27 << Last Chapter Next Chapter >>

27:1 And Job continued his discourse:

27:2 As God lives, who withholds my deserts, the Almighty, who has made bitter my soul,

27:3 So long as I still have life in me and the breath of God is in my nostrils,

27:4 My lips shall not speak falsehood, nor my tongue utter deceit!

27:5 Far be it from me to account you right; till I die I will not renounce my innocence.

27:6 My justice I maintain and I will not relinquish it; my heart does not reproach me for any of my days.

27:7 Let my enemy be as the wicked and my adversary as the unjust!

27:8 For what can the impious man expect when he is cut off, when God requires his life?

27:9 Will God then attend to his cry when calamity comes upon him?

27:10 Will he then delight in the Almighty and call upon him constantly?

27:11 I will teach you the manner of God’s dealings, and the way of the Almighty I will not conceal.

27:12 Behold, you yourselves have all seen it; why then do you spend yourselves in idle words!

27:13 This is the portion of a wicked man from God, the inheritance an oppressor receives from the Almighty:

27:14 Though his children be many, the sword is their destiny. His offspring shall not be filled with bread.

27:15 His survivors, when they die, shall have no burial, and their widows shall not be mourned.

27:16 Though he heap up silver like dust and store away mounds of clothing,

27:17 What he has stored the just man shall wear, and the innocent shall divide the silver.

27:18 He builds his house as of cobwebs, or like a booth put up by the vine-keeper.

27:19 He lies down a rich man, one last time; he opens his eyes and nothing remains to him.

27:20 Terrors rush upon him by day; at night the tempest carries him off.

27:21 The storm wind seizes him and he disappears; it sweeps him out of his place.

27:22 It hurls itself against him without mercy as he flees headlong from its power.

27:23 It claps its hands in derision and hisses him out of his place.

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