Job 27
1 And Job adds to lift up his allegory and says:
And Job further continued and said in his parable,
2 “God lives! He turned aside my judgment, And the Mighty—He made my soul bitter.
[As] God lives, who has thus judge me; and the Almighty, who has embittered my soul;
3 For all the while my breath [is] in me, And the wind of God in my nostrils.
verily, while my breath is yet in [me], and the breath of God which remains to me is in my nostrils,
4 My lips do not speak perverseness, And my tongue does not utter deceit.
my lips shall not speak evil words, neither shall my soul meditate unrighteous thoughts.
5 Defilement to me—if I justify you, Until I expire I do not turn aside my integrity from me.
Far be it from me that I should justify you till I die; for I will not let go my innocence,
6 On my righteousness I have laid hold, And I do not let it go, My heart does not reproach me while I live.
but keeping fast to [my] righteousness I will by no means let it go: for I am not conscious to myself of having done any thing amiss.
7 My enemy is as the wicked, And my withstander as the perverse.
Nay rather, but let mine enemies be as the overthrow of the ungodly, and they that rise up against me, as the destruction of transgressors.
8 For what [is] the hope of the profane, When He cuts off? When God casts off his soul?
For what is the hope of the ungodly, that he holds to it? will he indeed trust in the Lord [and] be saved?
9 [Does] God hear his cry, When distress comes on him?
Will God hear his prayer? or, when distress has come upon him,
10 Does he delight himself on the Mighty? Call God at all times?
has he any confidence before him? or will [God] hear him as he calls upon him?
11 I show you by the hand of God, That which [is] with the Mighty I do not hide.
Yet now I will tell you what is in the hand of the Lord: I will not lie concerning the things which are with the Almighty.
12 Behold, you—all of you—have seen, And why [is] this—you are altogether vain?
Behold, you all know that you are adding vanity to vanity.
13 This [is] the portion of wicked man with God, And the inheritance of terrible ones They receive from the Mighty.
This is the portion of an ungodly man from the Lord, and the possession of oppressors shall come upon them from the Almighty.
14 If his sons multiply—a sword [is] for them. And his offspring [are] not satisfied [with] bread.
And if their children be many, they shall be for slaughter: and if they grow up, they shall beg.
15 His remnant are buried in death, And his widows do not weep.
And they that survive of him shall utterly perish, and no one shall pity their widows.
16 If he heaps up silver as dust, And prepares clothing as clay,
Even if he should gather silver as earth, and prepare gold as clay;
17 He prepares—and the righteous puts [it] on, And the innocent apportions the silver.
All these things shall the righteous gain, and the true-hearted shall possess his wealth.
18 He has built his house as a moth, And as a shelter a watchman has made.
And his house is gone like moths, and like a spider's web.
19 He lies down rich, and he is not gathered, He has opened his eyes, and he is not.
The rich man shall lie down, and shall not continue: he has opened his eyes, and he is not.
20 Terrors overtake him as waters, By night a whirlwind has stolen him away.
Pains have come upon him as water, and darkness has carried him away by night.
21 An east wind takes him up, and he goes, And it frightens him from his place,
And a burning wind shall catch him, and he shall depart, and it shall utterly drive him out of his place.
22 And it casts at him, and does not spare, He diligently flees from its hand.
And [God] shall cast [trouble] upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.
23 It claps its hands at him, And it hisses at him from his place.”
He shall cause [men] to clap their hands against them, and shall hiss him out of his place.
