The Book of Job

chapter 27


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verse #1

Job again took up his parable, and said,


verse #2

“As God lives, who has taken away my right, the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter


verse #3

(for the length of my life is still in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils);


verse #4

surely my lips will not speak unrighteousness, neither will my tongue utter deceit.


verse #5

Far be it from me that I should justify you. Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.


verse #6

I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart will not reproach me so long as I live.


verse #7

“Let my enemy be as the wicked. Let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous.


verse #8

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


verse #9

Will God hear his cry when trouble comes on him?


verse #10

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


verse #11

I will teach you about the hand of God. I will not conceal that which is with the Almighty.


verse #12

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


verse #13

“This is the portion of a wicked man with God, the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty.


verse #14

If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword. His offspring will not be satisfied with bread.


verse #15

Those who remain of him will be buried in death. His widows will make no lamentation.


verse #16

Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare clothing as the clay;


verse #17

he may prepare it, but the just will put it on, and the innocent will divide the silver.


verse #18

He builds his house as the moth, as a booth which the watchman makes.


verse #19

He lies down rich, but he will not do so again. He opens his eyes, and he is not.


verse #20

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


verse #21

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


verse #22

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


verse #23

Men will clap their hands at him, and will hiss him out of his place.

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