Job 27
New International Version - Job 27 << | >> 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142 27:1 And Job continued his discourse: 27:2 'As surely as God lives, who has denied me justice, the Almighty, who has made me taste bitterness of soul, 27:3 as long as I have life within me, the breath of God in my nostrils, 27:4 my lips will not speak wickedness, and my tongue will utter no deceit. 27:5 I will never admit you are in the right; till I die, I will not deny my integrity. 27:6 I will maintain my righteousness and never let go of it; my conscience will not reproach me as long as I live. 27:7 'May my enemies be like the wicked, my adversaries like the unjust! 27:8 For what hope has the godless when he is cut off, when God takes away his life? 27:9 Does God listen to his cry when distress comes upon him? 27:10 Will he find delight in the Almighty? Will he call upon God at all times? 27:11 'I will teach you about the power of God; the ways of the Almighty I will not conceal. 27:12 You have all seen this yourselves. Why then this meaningless talk? 27:13 'Here is the fate God allots to the wicked, the heritage a ruthless man receives from the Almighty: 27:14 However many his children, their fate is the sword; his offspring will never have enough to eat. 27:15 The plague will bury those who survive him, and their widows will not weep for them. 27:16 Though he heaps up silver like dust and clothes like piles of clay, 27:17 what he lays up the righteous will wear, and the innocent will divide his silver. 27:18 The house he builds is like a moth's cocoon, like a hut made by a watchman. 27:19 He lies down wealthy, but will do so no more; when he opens his eyes, all is gone. 27:20 Terrors overtake him like a flood; a tempest snatches him away in the night. 27:21 The east wind carries him off, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place. 27:22 It hurls itself against him without mercy as he flees headlong from its power. 27:23 It claps its hands in derision and hisses him out of his place.