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 distressed 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 will not speak unrighteousness, nor will 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 will not reproach me so long as I live.
27:7 Let my enemy be as the wicked and let he who rises up against me be as the unrighteous. 27:8For 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? 27:10Will he delight himself in the Almighty and call upon God at all times?
27:11 I will teach you* concerning the hand of God. What is with the Almighty I will not conceal.27:12 Behold, all you* yourselves have seen it. Why then have you* 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 will not be satisfied with bread.
27:15 Those who remain of him will be buried in death and his widows will make no lamentation.
27:16 Though he heaps up silver as the dust and prepares garments as the clay, 27:17 he may prepare it, but the just will put it on and the innocent will 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 will 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 whirlwinds him out of his place.
27:22 For God will hurl at him and not spare. He would gladly flee out of his hand. 27:23 Men will clap their hands at him and will hiss him out of his place.