Job 27:1
And Job addeth to lift up his simile, and saith: --
Job 27:2
God liveth! He turned aside my judgment, And the Mighty--He made my soul bitter.
Job 27:3
For all the while my breath is in me, And the spirit of God in my nostrils.
Job 27:4
My lips do not speak perverseness, And my tongue doth not utter deceit.
Job 27:5
Pollution to me--if I justify you, Till I expire I turn not aside mine integrity from me.
Job 27:6
On my righteousness I have laid hold, And I do not let it go, My heart doth not reproach me while I live.
Job 27:7
As the wicked is my enemy, And my withstander as the perverse.
Job 27:8
For what is the hope of the profane, When He doth cut off? When God doth cast off his soul?
Job 27:9
His cry doth God hear, When distress cometh on him?
Job 27:10
On the Mighty doth he delight himself? Call God at all times?
Job 27:11
I shew you by the hand of God, That which is with the Mighty I hide not.
Job 27:12
Lo, ye--all of you--have seen, And why is this--ye are altogether vain?
Job 27:13
This is the portion of wicked man with God, And the inheritance of terrible ones From the Mighty they receive.
Job 27:14
If his sons multiply--for them is a sword. And his offspring are not satisfied with bread.
Job 27:15
His remnant in death are buried, And his widows do not weep.
Job 27:16
If he heap up as dust silver, And as clay prepare clothing,
Job 27:17
He prepareth--and the righteous putteth it on, And the silver the innocent doth apportion.
Job 27:18
He hath built as a moth his house, And as a booth a watchman hath made.
Job 27:19
Rich he lieth down, and he is not gathered, His eyes he hath opened, and he is not.
Job 27:20
Overtake him as waters do terrors, By night stolen him away hath a whirlwind.
Job 27:21
Take him up doth an east wind, and he goeth, And it frighteneth him from his place,
Job 27:22
And it casteth at him, and doth not spare, From its hand he diligently fleeth.
Job 27:23
It clappeth at him its hands, And it hisseth at him from his place.