Chapter 27

  And Job again took up his parable, and said,  

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  As God liveth, who hath taken away my right, And the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul:  

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  (For my life is yet whole in me, And the spirit of God is in my nostrils);  

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  Surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, Neither shall my tongue utter deceit.  

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  Far be it from me that I should justify you: Till I die I will not put away mine integrity from me.  

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  My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: My heart shall not reproach [me] so long as I live.  

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  Let mine enemy be as the wicked, And let him that riseth up against me be as the unrighteous.  

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  For what is the hope of the godless, though he get him gain, When God taketh away his soul?  

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  Will God hear his cry, When trouble cometh upon him?  

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  Will he delight himself in the Almighty, And call upon God at all times?  

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  I will teach you concerning the hand of God; That which is with the Almighty will I not conceal.  

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  Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; Why then are ye become altogether vain?  

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  This is the portion of a wicked man with God, And the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty:  

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  If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword; And his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.  

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  Those that remain of him shall be buried in death, And his widows shall make no lamentation.  

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  Though he heap up silver as the dust, And prepare raiment as the clay;  

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  He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, And the innocent shall divide the silver.  

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  He buildeth his house as the moth, And as a booth which the keeper maketh.  

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  He lieth down rich, but he shall not be gathered [to his fathers]; He openeth his eyes, and he is not.  

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  Terrors overtake him like waters; A tempest stealeth him away in the night.  

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  The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth; And it sweepeth him out of his place.  

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  For [God] shall hurl at him, and not spare: He would fain flee out of his hand.  

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  Men shall clap their hands at him, And shall hiss him out of his place.  

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