Job 27:1
And Job again took up his discourse, and said,
Job 27:2
As God lives, who has taken away my right, and the Almighty, who has vexed my soul.
Job 27:3
(For my life is yet whole in me. And the spirit of God is in my nostrils.)
Job 27:4
Surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, nor shall my tongue utter deceit.
Job 27:5
Far be it from me that I should justify you. Till I die I will not put away my integrity from me.
Job 27:6
I hold fast my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.
Job 27:7
Let my enemy be as the wicked, and let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous.
Job 27:8
For what is the hope of the profane, though he gets him gain, when God takes away his soul?
Job 27:9
Will God hear his cry when trouble comes upon him?
Job 27:10
Will he delight himself in the Almighty, and call upon God at all times?
Job 27:11
I will teach you concerning the hand of God. That which is with the Almighty I will not conceal.
Job 27:12
Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it. Why then have ye become altogether vain?
Job 27:13
This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty.
Job 27:14
If his sons be multiplied, it is for the sword. And his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
Job 27:15
Those who remain of him shall be buried in death, and his widows shall make no lamentation.
Job 27:16
Though he heaps up silver as the dust, and prepares raiment as the clay,
Job 27:17
he may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.
Job 27:18
He builds his house as the moth, and as a booth which the keeper makes.
Job 27:19
He lies down rich, but he shall not be gathered to his fathers. He opens his eyes, and he is not.
Job 27:20
Terrors overtake him like waters. A tempest steals him away in the night.
Job 27:21
The east wind carries him away, and he departs, and it sweeps him out of his place.
Job 27:22
For God shall hurl at him, and not spare. He would gladly flee out of his hand.
Job 27:23
Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.