Job 27

Jubilee Bible 2000

27 ¶ Moreover, Job continued his parable and said,

² As God lives, who has taken away my rights; and the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter,

³ that all the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils,

⁴ my lips shall not speak iniquity, nor my tongue utter deceit.

⁵ In no wise should I justify you; until I die I will not remove my integrity from me.

⁶ I hold fast to my righteousness and will not let it go; my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.

⁷ ¶ Let my enemy be as the wicked and my adversary as the unrighteous.

⁸ For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he has stolen much, when God takes away his soul?

⁹ Will God hear his cry when the tribulation comes upon him?

¹⁰ Will he delight himself in the Almighty? Will he always call upon God?

¹¹ ¶ I will teach you what there is in the hand of God; I will not conceal that which is regarding the Almighty.

¹² Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye so completely vain?

¹³ This is the portion of a wicked man with God and the heritage of the violent, which they shall receive of the Almighty.

¹⁴ If their sons are multiplied, it is for the sword; and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

¹⁵ Those that remain of him shall be buried in death; and their widows shall not weep.

¹⁶ Though he heaps up silver as the dust and prepares raiment as the clay,

¹⁷ he may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.

¹⁸ He built his house as a moth and as a booth that the keeper makes.

¹⁹ The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered; he shall open his eyes and not see anyone.

²⁰ Terrors shall take hold on him as waters; a whirlwind shall carry him away in the night.

²¹ The east wind shall take him away, and he shall depart; the storm shall catch him up out of his place.

²² For God shall cast down on him and not spare; he would attempt to flee out of his hand.

²³ Men shall clap their hands at him, and from his place they shall hiss at him.