CPDV - Job - 27

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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