The Book of Job

Chapter-27

Job 27:1 Job also added to this, using figures of speech, and he said:

 

Job 27:2 As God lives, who has taken away my judgment, and the Almighty, who has led my soul to bitterness,

 

Job 27:3 as long as my breath remains in me and the breath of God remains in my nostrils,

 

Job 27:4 my lips will not speak iniquity, nor will my tongue devise lies.

 

Job 27:5 Far be it from me that I should judge you to be right, for, until I expire, I will not withdraw from my innocence.

 

Job 27:6 I will not forsake my justification, which I have just begun to grasp, for my heart does not find blame for me in my whole life.

 

Job 27:7 Let the impious be as my enemy, and the sinful, as my adversary.

 

Job 27:8 For what hope is there for the hypocrite, if he greedily plunders and God does not free his soul?

 

Job 27:9 Will God pay attention to his cry, when anguish overcomes him?

 

Job 27:10 Or will he take delight in the Almighty and call upon God at all times?

 

Job 27:11 I will teach you through the hand of God, what the Almighty holds, and I will not conceal it.

 

Job 27:12 Behold, you know all this, and so why do you speak vain things without a reason?

 

Job 27:13 This is the portion of the impious man with God, and the inheritance of the violent, which they will receive from the Almighty.

 

Job 27:14 If his sons should happen to increase, they will be for the sword, and his grandsons will not be satisfied with bread.

 

Job 27:15 Whatever will remain of him will be buried in the ruins, and his widows will not weep.

 

Job 27:16 If he will amass silver as if it were dirt and fabricate garments as if they were clay,

 

Job 27:17 then yes, he will gather, but the just will be clothed with it and the innocent will divide the silver.

 

Job 27:18 He has built his house like a moth, and he has made a makeshift shelter like a sentry.

 

Job 27:19 When he falls asleep, the rich man will leave him with nothing; he will open his eyes and find nothing.

 

Job 27:20 Destitution will surround him like water; a storm will overwhelm him in the night.

 

Job 27:21 A burning wind will pick him up and carry him away, and, like a whirlwind, it will rush him from his place.

 

Job 27:22 And it will hurl over him and will not spare him; fleeing from its power, he will go into exile.

 

Job 27:23 He will clasp his hands over himself, and he will hiss at himself, while considering his situation.