Job Chapter 27

27 : 1 And Job again took up his discourse, and said,

27 : 2 As God lives, who has taken away my right, and the Almighty, who has vexed my soul.

27 : 3 (For my life is yet whole in me. And the spirit of God is in my nostrils.)

27 : 4 Surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, nor shall my tongue utter deceit.

27 : 5 Far be it from me that I should justify you. Till I die I will not put away my integrity from me.

27 : 6 I hold fast my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.

27 : 7 Let my enemy be as the wicked, and let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous.

27 : 8 For what is the hope of the profane, though he gets him gain, when God takes away his soul?

27 : 9 Will God hear his cry when trouble comes upon him?

27 : 10 Will he delight himself in the Almighty, and call upon God at all times?

27 : 11 I will teach you concerning the hand of God. That which is with the Almighty I will not conceal.

27 : 12 Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it. Why then have ye become altogether vain?

27 : 13 This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty.

27 : 14 If his sons be multiplied, it is for the sword. And his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

27 : 15 Those who remain of him shall be buried in death, and his widows shall make no lamentation.

27 : 16 Though he heaps up silver as the dust, and prepares raiment as the clay,

27 : 17 he may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.

27 : 18 He builds his house as the moth, and as a booth which the keeper makes.

27 : 19 He lies down rich, but he shall not be gathered to his fathers. He opens his eyes, and he is not.

27 : 20 Terrors overtake him like waters. A tempest steals him away in the night.

27 : 21 The east wind carries him away, and he departs, and it sweeps him out of his place.

27 : 22 For God shall hurl at him, and not spare. He would gladly flee out of his hand.

27 : 23 Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.