Job 27
1 Job again took up his parable, and said,
And Job addeth to lift up his simile, and saith: —
2 “As God lives, who has taken away my right, the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter
God liveth! He turned aside my judgment, And the Mighty — He made my soul bitter.
3 (for the length of my life is still in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils);
For all the while my breath [is] in me, And the spirit of God in my nostrils.
4 surely my lips will not speak unrighteousness, neither will my tongue utter deceit.
My lips do not speak perverseness, And my tongue doth not utter deceit.
5 Far be it from me that I should justify you. Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.
Pollution to me — if I justify you, Till I expire I turn not aside mine integrity from me.
6 I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart will not reproach me so long as I live.
On my righteousness I have laid hold, And I do not let it go, My heart doth not reproach me while I live.
7 “Let my enemy be as the wicked. Let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous.
As the wicked is my enemy, And my withstander as the perverse.
8 For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?
For what [is] the hope of the profane, When He doth cut off? When God doth cast off his soul?
9 Will God hear his cry when trouble comes on him?
His cry doth God hear, When distress cometh on him?
10 Will he delight himself in the Almighty, and call on God at all times?
On the Mighty doth he delight himself? Call God at all times?
11 I will teach you about the hand of God. I will not conceal that which is with the Almighty.
I shew you by the hand of God, That which [is] with the Mighty I hide not.
12 Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves; why then have you become altogether vain?
Lo, ye — all of you — have seen, And why [is] this — ye are altogether vain?
13 “This is the portion of a wicked man with God, the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty.
This [is] the portion of wicked man with God, And the inheritance of terrible ones From the Mighty they receive.
14 If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword. His offspring will not be satisfied with bread.
If his sons multiply — for them [is] a sword. And his offspring [are] not satisfied [with] bread.
15 Those who remain of him will be buried in death. His widows will make no lamentation.
His remnant in death are buried, And his widows do not weep.
16 Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare clothing as the clay;
If he heap up as dust silver, And as clay prepare clothing,
17 he may prepare it, but the just will put it on, and the innocent will divide the silver.
He prepareth — and the righteous putteth [it] on, And the silver the innocent doth apportion.
18 He builds his house as the moth, as a booth which the watchman makes.
He hath built as a moth his house, And as a booth a watchman hath made.
19 He lies down rich, but he will not do so again. He opens his eyes, and he is not.
Rich he lieth down, and he is not gathered, His eyes he hath opened, and he is not.
20 Terrors overtake him like waters. A storm steals him away in the night.
Overtake him as waters do terrors, By night stolen him away hath a whirlwind.
21 The east wind carries him away, and he departs. It sweeps him out of his place.
Take him up doth an east wind, and he goeth, And it frighteneth him from his place,
22 For it hurls at him, and does not spare, as he flees away from his hand.
And it casteth at him, and doth not spare, From its hand he diligently fleeth.
23 Men will clap their hands at him, and will hiss him out of his place.
It clappeth at him its hands, And it hisseth at him from his place.
