AB - Job - 27

27:1  And Job further continued and said in his discourse,

27:2  As God lives, who has thus judged me; and the Almighty, who has embittered my soul;

27:3  verily, while my breath is yet in me, and the breath of God which remains to me is in my nostrils,

27:4  my lips shall not speak evil words, neither shall my soul meditate unrighteous thoughts.

27:5  Far be it from me that I should justify you till I die! For I will not let go my innocence,

27:6  but keeping fast to my righteousness, I will by no means let it go: for I am not conscious to myself of having done anything amiss.

27:7  But on the contrary, let my enemies be as the overthrow of the ungodly, and they that rise up against me as the destruction of transgressors.

27:8  For what is the hope of the ungodly, that he holds to it? Will he indeed trust in the Lord and be saved?

27:9  Will God hear his prayer? Or when distress has come upon him,

27:10  has he any confidence before Him? Or will God hear him as he calls upon Him?

27:11  Yet now I will tell you what is in the hand of the Lord: I will not lie concerning the things which are with the Almighty.

27:12  Behold, you all know that you are adding vanity to vanity.

27:13  This is the portion of an ungodly man from the Lord, and the possession of oppressors shall come upon them from the Almighty.

27:14  And if their children are many, they shall be for slaughter: and if they grow up, they shall beg.

27:15  And they that survive of him shall utterly perish, and no one shall pity their widows.

27:16  Even if he should gather silver as dust, and prepare gold as clay,

27:17  all these things shall the righteous gain, and the true-hearted shall possess His wealth.

27:18  And his house is gone like moths, and like a spider's web.

27:19  The rich man shall lie down, and shall not continue: he has opened his eyes, and he is no more.

27:20  Pains have come upon him as water, and darkness has carried him away by night.

27:21  And a burning wind shall catch him, and he shall depart, and it shall utterly drive him out of his place.

27:22  And God shall cast trouble upon him, and not spare: he flees desperately from out of His hand.

27:23  He shall cause men to clap their hands against them, and shall hiss him out of his place.