Chapter 27

  And Job continued his parable and said,  

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  [As] ùGod liveth, who hath taken away my right, and the Almighty, who hath embittered my soul,  

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  All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of +God is in my nostrils,  

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  My lips shall not speak unrighteousness, nor my tongue utter deceit!  

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  Be it far from me that I should justify you; till I die I will not remove my blamelessness from me.  

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  My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart reproacheth [me] not one of my days.  

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  Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous.  

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  For what is the hope of the ungodly, when [God] cutteth him off, when +God taketh away his soul?  

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  Will ùGod hear his cry when distress cometh upon him?  

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  Doth he delight himself in the Almighty? will he at all times call upon +God?  

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  I will teach you concerning the hand of ùGod; what is with the Almighty will I not conceal.  

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  Behold, ye yourselves have all seen [it]; and why are ye thus altogether vain?  

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  This is the portion of the wicked man with ùGod, and the heritage of the violent, 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 by death, and his widows shall not weep.  

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  Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare clothing 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 that a keeper maketh.  

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  He lieth down rich, but will do so no more; he openeth his eyes, and he is not.  

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  Terrors overtake him like waters; a whirlwind stealeth him away in the night.  

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  The east wind carrieth him away and he is gone; and as a storm it hurleth him out of his place.  

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  And [God] shall cast upon 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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