NHEBME - Job - 27

27:1  Job again took up his parable, and said,

27:2  "As God lives, who has taken away my right, the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter.

27:3  (For the length of my life is still in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils);

27:4  surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, neither shall my tongue utter deceit.

27:5  Far be it from me that I should justify you. Until I die I will not put away 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. Let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous.

27:8  For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?

27:9  Will God hear his cry when trouble comes on him?

27:10  Will he delight himself in the Almighty, and call on God at all times?

27:11  I will teach you about the hand of God. That which is with the Almighty will I not conceal.

27:12  Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves; why then have you become altogether vain?

27:13  "This is the portion of a wicked man with God, the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty.

27:14  If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword. His offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

27:15  Those who remain of him shall be buried in death. His widows shall make no lamentation.

27:16  Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare clothing 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, as a booth which the watchman makes.

27:19  He lies down rich, but he shall not do so again. He opens his eyes, and he is not.

27:20  Terrors overtake him like waters. A storm steals him away in the night.

27:21  The east wind carries him away, and he departs. It sweeps him out of his place.

27:22  For it hurls at him, and does not spare, as he flees away from his hand.

27:23  Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.