Job - Chapter 27 | Good News Translation

  • 1. I swear by the living Almighty God, who refuses me justice and makes my life bitter---
  • 2. {cf15I (SEE 27:1)}
  • 3. as long as God gives me breath,
  • 4. my lips will never say anything evil, my tongue will never tell a lie.
  • 5. I will never say that you men are right; I will insist on my innocence to my dying day.
  • 6. I will never give up my claim to be right; my conscience is clear.
  • 7. May all who oppose me and fight against me be punished like the wicked and the unrighteous.
  • 8. What hope is there for the godless in the hour when God demands their life?
  • 9. When trouble comes, will God hear their cries?
  • 10. They should have desired the joy he gives; they should have constantly prayed to him.
  • 11. Let me teach you how great is God's power, and explain what Almighty God has planned.
  • 12. But no, after all, you have seen for yourselves; so why do you talk such nonsense?
  • 13. This is how Almighty God punishes wicked, violent people.
  • 14. They may have many sons, but all will be killed in war; their children never have enough to eat.
  • 15. Those who survive will die from disease, and even their widows will not mourn their death.
  • 16. The wicked may have too much silver to count and more clothes than anyone needs;
  • 17. but some good person will wear the clothes, and someone honest will get the silver.
  • 18. The wicked build houses like a spider's web or like the hut of a slave guarding the fields.
  • 19. One last time they will lie down rich, and when they wake up, they will find their wealth gone.
  • 20. Terror will strike like a sudden flood; a wind in the night will blow them away;
  • 21. the east wind will sweep them from their homes;
  • 22. it will blow down on them without pity while they try their best to escape.
  • 23. The wind howls at them as they run, frightening them with destructive power.
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