Job 27

Revised Geneva Translation

27 Moreover, Job proceeded and continued his parable, saying,

² “The living God has taken away my judgment. For the Almighty has put my soul in bitterness.

³ “Yet, so long as my breath is in me, and the Spirit of God in my nostrils,

⁴ “my lips shall surely speak no wickedness. And my tongue shall utter no deceit.

⁵ “Far be it from me that I should justify you. Until I die, I will never take away my innocence from myself.

⁶ “I will keep my righteousness and will not forsake it. My heart shall not reprove me of my days.

⁷ “My enemy shall be as the wicked and he who rises against me as the unrighteous.

⁸ “For what hope has the hypocrite when he has heaped up riches if God take away his soul?

⁹ “Will God hear his cry when trouble comes upon him?

¹⁰ “Will he set his delight on the Almighty? Will he call upon God at all times?

¹¹ “I will teach you by the Hand of God. I will not conceal that which is with the Almighty.

¹² “Behold, all you yourselves have seen it. Why, then, do you act with such complete frivolity?

¹³ “This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage that tyrants shall receive from the Almighty.

¹⁴ “If his children are in great number, the sword shall destroy them, and his posterity shall not be satisfied with bread.

¹⁵ “His remnant shall be buried in death. And his widows shall not weep.

¹⁶ “Though he should heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay,

¹⁷ “he may prepare it, but the just shall put it on. And the innocent shall divide the silver.

¹⁸ “He builds his house as the moth, and as a booth which the watchman makes.

¹⁹ “When the rich man sleeps, he shall not be gathered. They opened their eyes, and he was gone.

²⁰ “Terrors shall take him as waters. A tempest shall carry him away by night.

²¹ “The east wind shall take him away, and he shall depart. And it shall hurl him out of his place

²² “and shall cast upon him and not spare. He flees desperately from its hand.

²³ “Men shall clap their hands at him, and hiss at him out of their place.”