LEB - Job - 27

27:1  Then Job again took up his discourse and said,

27:2  “⌞As God lives⌟, he has removed my justice, and Shaddai has made my inner self bitter.

27:3  For ⌞as long as⌟ my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nose,

27:4  my lips surely will not speak falseness, and my tongue surely will not utter deceit.

27:5  Far be it from me that ⌞I would say that you are right⌟; until I pass away, I will not put away from me my blamelessness.

27:6  I hold fast to my righteousness, and I will not let it go; my heart will not blame any of my days.

27:7  “Let my enemy be like the wicked and my opponent like the unrighteous,

27:8  for what is the hope of the godless when he cuts them off, when God takes away his life?

27:9  Will God hear his cry of distress when distress comes upon him?

27:10  Or, in Shaddai will he find delight? Will he call upon God at all times?

27:11  “I will teach you about God’s hand; I will not conceal that which is with Shaddai.

27:12  Look, you all have seen, and ⌞why in the world⌟ ⌞have you become altogether vain⌟?

27:13  “This is the portion of the wicked human being with God, and they receive from Shaddai the inheritance of the ruthless.

27:14  If their children multiply, it is for the sword, and his offspring ⌞do not have enough to eat⌟.

27:15  Their survivors are buried through the plague, and their widows do not weep.

27:16  If he heaps up silver like the dust and fashions clothing like the clay,

27:17  he makes it ready, and the righteous will wear it, and the innocent will divide the silver.

27:18  “He builds his house like the moth, and like a booth that a watchman has made.

27:19  He goes to bed with wealth, but ⌞he will do so no more⌟; he opens his eyes, and ⌞it is gone⌟.

27:20  Terrors overtake him like the water; a storm wind carries him off in the night.

27:21  The east wind lifts him up, and he is gone, and it sweeps him away from his place.

27:22  And it hurls at him, and it has no compassion; he will quickly flee from its power.

27:23  It claps its hands over him, and it hisses at him from its place.