Job - Chapter 27 | English Standard Version

  • 1. And Job again took up his discourse, and said:
  • 2. "As God lives, who has taken away my right, and the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter,
  • 3. as long as my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils,
  • 4. my lips will not speak falsehood, and my tongue will not utter deceit.
  • 5. Far be it from me to say that you are right; till I die I will not put away my integrity from me.
  • 6. I hold fast my righteousness and will not let it go; my heart does not reproach me for any of my days.
  • 7. "Let my enemy be as the wicked, and let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous.
  • 8. For what is the hope of the godless when God cuts him off, when God takes away his life?
  • 9. Will God hear his cry when distress comes upon him?
  • 10. Will he take delight in the Almighty? Will he call upon God at all times?
  • 11. I will teach you concerning the hand of God; what is with the Almighty I will not conceal.
  • 12. Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves; why then have you become altogether vain?
  • 13. "This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage that oppressors receive from the Almighty:
  • 14. If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword, and his descendants have not enough bread.
  • 15. Those who survive him the pestilence buries, and his widows do not weep.
  • 16. Though he heap up silver like dust, and pile up clothing like clay,
  • 17. he may pile it up, but the righteous will wear it, and the innocent will divide the silver.
  • 18. He builds his house like a moth's, like a booth that a watchman makes.
  • 19. He goes to bed rich, but will do so no more; he opens his eyes, and his wealth is gone.
  • 20. Terrors overtake him like a flood; in the night a whirlwind carries him off.
  • 21. The east wind lifts him up and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.
  • 22. It hurls at him without pity; he flees from its power in headlong flight.
  • 23. It claps its hands at him and hisses at him from its place.
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