Job - Chapter 27 - A Conservative Version
- And Job again took up his parable, and said,
- As God lives, who has taken away my right, and the Almighty, who has vexed my soul.
- (For my life is yet whole in me. And the spirit of God is in my nostrils.)
- Surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, nor shall my tongue utter deceit.
- Far be it from me that I should justify you. Till I die I will not put away my integrity from me.
- I hold fast my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart shall not reproach [me] so long as I live.
- Let my enemy be as the wicked, and let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous.
- For what is the hope of the profane, though he gets him gain, when God takes away his soul?
- Will God hear his cry when trouble comes upon him?
- Will he delight himself in the Almighty, and call upon God at all times?
- I will teach you concerning the hand of God. That which is with the Almighty I will not conceal.
- Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it. Why then have ye become altogether vain?
- This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty.
- If his sons be multiplied, it is for the sword. And his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
- Those who remain of him shall be buried in death, and his widows shall make no lamentation.
- Though he heaps up silver as the dust, and prepares raiment as the clay,
- he may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.
- He builds his house as the moth, and as a booth which the keeper makes.
- He lays down rich, but he shall not be gathered [to his fathers]. He opens his eyes, and he is not.
- Terrors overtake him like waters. A tempest steals him away in the night.
- The east wind carries him away, and he departs, and it sweeps him out of his place.
- For [God] shall hurl at him, and not spare. He would gladly flee out of his hand.
- Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.