Jubilee2000 - Job - 27

27:1  Moreover, Job continued his parable and said,

27:2  As God lives, [who] has taken away my rights; and the Almighty, [who] has made my soul bitter,

27:3  that all the while my breath [is] in me, and the spirit of God [is] in my nostrils,

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

27:5  In no wise should I justify you; until I die I will not remove my integrity from me.

27:6  I hold fast to 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 my adversary as the unrighteous.

27:8  For what [is] the hope of the hypocrite, though he has stolen much, when God takes away his soul?

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

27:10  Will he delight himself in the Almighty? Will he always call upon God?

27:11  I will teach you [what there is] in the hand of God; I will not conceal that which [is] regarding the Almighty.

27:12  Behold, all ye yourselves have seen [it]; why then are ye so completely vain?

27:13  This [is] the portion of a wicked man with God and the heritage of the violent, [which] they shall receive of the Almighty.

27:14  If their sons are multiplied, [it is] for the sword; and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

27:15  Those that remain of him shall be buried in death; and their widows shall not weep.

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 built his house as a moth and as a booth [that] the keeper makes.

27:19  The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered; he shall open his eyes and not see anyone.

27:20  Terrors shall take hold on him as waters; a whirlwind shall carry him away in the night.

27:21  The east wind shall take him away, and he shall depart; the storm shall catch him up out of his place.

27:22  For [God] shall cast down on him and not spare; he would attempt to flee out of his hand.

27:23  [Men] shall clap their hands at him, and from his place they shall hiss at him.: