27Job 27

1And Job addeth to lift up his simile, and saith: --Select Job 27:1

2God liveth! He turned aside my judgment, And the Mighty--He made my soul bitter.Select Job 27:2

3For all the while my breath is in me, And the spirit of God in my nostrils.Select Job 27:3

4My lips do not speak perverseness, And my tongue doth not utter deceit.Select Job 27:4

5Pollution to me--if I justify you, Till I expire I turn not aside mine integrity from me.Select Job 27:5

6On my righteousness I have laid hold, And I do not let it go, My heart doth not reproach me while I live.Select Job 27:6

7As the wicked is my enemy, And my withstander as the perverse.Select Job 27:7

8For what is the hope of the profane, When He doth cut off? When God doth cast off his soul?Select Job 27:8

9His cry doth God hear, When distress cometh on him?Select Job 27:9

10On the Mighty doth he delight himself? Call God at all times?Select Job 27:10

11I shew you by the hand of God, That which is with the Mighty I hide not.Select Job 27:11

12Lo, ye--all of you--have seen, And why is this--ye are altogether vain?Select Job 27:12

13This is the portion of wicked man with God, And the inheritance of terrible ones From the Mighty they receive.Select Job 27:13

14If his sons multiply--for them is a sword. And his offspring are not satisfied with bread.Select Job 27:14

15His remnant in death are buried, And his widows do not weep.Select Job 27:15

16If he heap up as dust silver, And as clay prepare clothing,Select Job 27:16

17He prepareth--and the righteous putteth it on, And the silver the innocent doth apportion.Select Job 27:17

18He hath built as a moth his house, And as a booth a watchman hath made.Select Job 27:18

19Rich he lieth down, and he is not gathered, His eyes he hath opened, and he is not.Select Job 27:19

20Overtake him as waters do terrors, By night stolen him away hath a whirlwind.Select Job 27:20

21Take him up doth an east wind, and he goeth, And it frighteneth him from his place,Select Job 27:21

22And it casteth at him, and doth not spare, From its hand he diligently fleeth.Select Job 27:22

23It clappeth at him its hands, And it hisseth at him from his place.Select Job 27:23