Job - Chapter 27 | New International Version

  • 1. And Job continued his discourse:
  • 2. As surely as God lives, who has denied me justice, the Almighty, who has made me taste bitterness of soul,
  • 3. as long as I have life within me, the breath of God in my nostrils,
  • 4. my lips will not speak wickedness, and my tongue will utter no deceit.
  • 5. I will never admit you are in the right; till I die, I will not deny my integrity.
  • 6. I will maintain my righteousness and never let go of it; my conscience will not reproach me as long as I live.
  • 7. May my enemies be like the wicked, my adversaries like the unjust!
  • 8. For what hope has the godless when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?
  • 9. Does God listen to his cry when distress comes upon him?
  • 10. Will he find delight in the Almighty? Will he call upon God at all times?
  • 11. I will teach you about the power of God; the ways of the Almighty I will not conceal.
  • 12. You have all seen this yourselves. Why then this meaningless talk?
  • 13. Here is the fate God allots to the wicked, the heritage a ruthless man receives from the Almighty:
  • 14. However many his children, their fate is the sword; his offspring will never have enough to eat.
  • 15. The plague will bury those who survive him, and their widows will not weep for them.
  • 16. Though he heaps up silver like dust and clothes like piles of clay,
  • 17. what he lays up the righteous will wear, and the innocent will divide his silver.
  • 18. The house he builds is like a moth's cocoon, like a hut made by a watchman.
  • 19. He lies down wealthy, but will do so no more; when he opens his eyes, all is gone.
  • 20. Terrors overtake him like a flood; a tempest snatches him away in the night.
  • 21. The east wind carries him off, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.
  • 22. It hurls itself against him without mercy as he flees headlong from its power.
  • 23. It claps its hands in derision and hisses him out of his place.
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