ACV - Job - 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.