27Job 27

1Job also added, taking up his parable, and said:Select Job 27:1

2As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment, and the Almighty, who hath brought my soul to bitterness,Select Job 27:2

3As long as breath remaineth in me, and the spirit of God in my nostrils,Select Job 27:3

4My lips shall not speak iniquity, neither shall my tongue contrive lying.Select Job 27:4

5God forbid that I should judge you to be just: till I die I will not depart from my innocence.Select Job 27:5

6My justification, which I have begun to hold, I will not forsake: for my heart doth not reprehend me in all my life.Select Job 27:6

7Let my enemy be as the ungodly, and my adversary as the wicked one.Select Job 27:7

8For what is the hope of the hypocrite if through covetousness he take by violence, and God deliver not his soul?Select Job 27:8

9Will God hear his cry, when distress shall come upon him?Select Job 27:9

10Or can he delight himself in the Almighty, and call upon God at all times?Select Job 27:10

11I will teach you by the hand of God, what the Almighty hath, and I will not conceal it.Select Job 27:11

12Behold you all know it, and why do you speak vain things without cause?Select Job 27:12

13This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the inheritance of the violent, which they shall receive of the Almighty.Select Job 27:13

14If his sons be multiplied, they shall be for the sword, and his grandsons shall not be filled with bread.Select Job 27:14

15They that shall remain of him, shall be buried in death, and his widows shall not weep.Select Job 27:15

16If he shall heap together silver as earth, and prepare raiment as clay,Select Job 27:16

17He shall prepare indeed, but the just man shall be clothed with it: and the innocent shall divide the silver.Select Job 27:17

18He hath built his house as a moth, and as a keeper he hath made a booth.Select Job 27:18

19The rich man when he shall sleep shall take away nothing with him: he shall open his eyes and find nothing.Select Job 27:19

20Poverty like water shall take hold on him, a tempest shall oppress him in the night:Select Job 27:20

21A burning wind shall take him up, and carry him away, and as a whirlwind shall snatch him from his place.Select Job 27:21

22And he shall cast upon him, and shall not spare: out of his hand he would willingly flee.Select Job 27:22

23He shall clasp his hands upon him, and shall hiss at him, beholding his place.Select Job 27:23