Job 27

1 And Job again took up his measure, and said: —

Job also added, taking up his parable, and said:

2 As GOD liveth who hath taken away my right, even the Almighty, who hath embittered my soul;

As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment, and the Almighty, who hath brought my soul to bitterness,

3 All the while my inspiration is in me, and the spirit of GOD is in my nostrils,

As long as breath remaineth in me, and the spirit of God in my nostrils,

4 Verily my lips shall not speak perversity, nor shall, my tongue, utter deceit.

My lips shall not speak iniquity, neither shall my tongue contrive lying.

5 Far be it from me! that I should justify, you, —Even until I breathe my last, will I not let go mine integrity from me:

God forbid that I should judge you to be just: till I die I will not depart from my innocence.

6 On my righteousness, have I taken fast hold, and will not give it up, My heart shall not reproach any of my days.

My justification, which I have begun to hold, I will not forsake: for my heart doth not reprehend me in all my life.

7 Let mine enemy be a veritably lawless one! And, he that lifteth himself up against me, one veritably perverse!

Let my enemy be as the ungodly, and my adversary as the wicked one.

8 For what shall be the hope of the impious, though he graspeth with greed, when GOD shall draw forth his soul?

For what is the hope of the hypocrite if through covetousness he take by violence, and God deliver not his soul?

9 His outcry, will GOD hear, when there cometh upon him distress?

Will God hear his cry, when distress shall come upon him?

10 Verily, in the Almighty, he will not find delight, nor call on GOD continually!

Or can he delight himself in the Almighty, and call upon God at all times?

11 I would teach you, by the hand of GOD, That which is with the Almighty, will I not conceal.

I will teach you by the hand of God, what the Almighty hath, and I will not conceal it.

12 Lo! ye, have, all of you, seen, Wherefore, then, is it, that ye are utterly without purpose?

Behold you all know it, and why do you speak vain things without cause?

13 This, is the portion of a lawless man with GOD, That, the heritage of tyrants—from the Almighty, he shall receive.

This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the inheritance of the violent, which they shall receive of the Almighty.

14 If his children be multiplied, for them, [there is] the sword, and, his offspring, shall not be filled with bread;

If his sons be multiplied, they shall be for the sword, and his grandsons shall not be filled with bread.

15 His survivors, by pestilence, shall come to the grave, and, his widows, shall not weep;

They that shall remain of him, shall be buried in death, and his widows shall not weep.

16 Though he heap up silver like, dust, and, like a pile, he prepare clothing,

If he shall heap together silver as earth, and prepare raiment as clay,

17 He may prepare, but, the righteous, shall put on, and, the silver, shall the innocent apportion.

He shall prepare indeed, but the just man shall be clothed with it: and the innocent shall divide the silver.

18 He hath built, like a moth, his house, —like a hut, which a watcher hath made.

He hath built his house as a moth, and as a keeper he hath made a booth.

19 The rich man, shall lie down, and not do it again, his eyes, hath he opened, and then is not.

The rich man when he shall sleep shall take away nothing with him: he shall open his eyes and find nothing.

20 There shall reach him—like waters—terrors, By night, a storm-wind hath stolen him away;

Poverty like water shall take hold on him, a tempest shall oppress him in the night.

21 An east wind shall lift him up, and he shall depart, and it shall sweep him away out of his place;

A burning wind shall take him up, and carry him away, and as a whirlwind shall snatch him from his place.

22 And He will cast upon him and not spare, Out of his hand, shall he, swiftly flee;

And he shall cast upon him, and shall not spare: out of his hand he would willingly flee.

23 He shall clap over him his hands, and shall hiss him forth out of his place.

He shall clasp his hands upon him, and shall hiss at him, beholding his place.