Job 27:1-23
27 And Job proceeded again to lift up his proverbial utterance+ and went on to say:
2 “As God* lives,+ who has taken away my judgment,+And as the Almighty [lives], who has made my soul bitter,+
3 While my breath is yet whole within me,And the spirit of God* is in my nostrils,+
4 My lips will speak no unrighteousnessAnd my own tongue will mutter no deceit!
5 It is unthinkable on my part that I should declare YOU men righteous!+Until I expire I shall not take away my integrity+ from myself!
6 On my justness I have laid hold, and I shall not let it go;+My heart will not taunt [me] for any of my days.+
7 Let my enemy become in every way a wicked man,+And the one revolting against me really a wrongdoer.
8 For what is the hope of an apostate in case he cuts [him] off,+In case God* carries off his soul from him?+
9 Will God* hear an outcry of hisIn case distress comes upon him?+
10 Or in the Almighty will he find exquisite delight?Will he call to God at all times?
11 I shall instruct YOU men by the hand of God;That which is with the Almighty I shall not hide.+
12 Look! YOU yourselves have all of YOU seen visions;So why is it that YOU show yourselves utterly vain?+
13 This is the share of the wicked man* from God;+And the inheritance of the tyrants they will receive from the Almighty himself.
14 If his sons become many, it is for a sword;+And his descendants themselves will not have enough food.*
15 His own survivors will be buried during a deadly plague,*And their own widows will not weep.+
16 If he should pile up silver like dust itself,And he should prepare attire just as if clay,
17 He would prepare, but the righteous would be the one to clothe himself,+And in the silver the innocent would be the one to have a share.
18 He has built his house like a mere moth,And like a booth+ that a watchman has made.
19 Rich he will lie down, but nothing will be gathered;*His eyes he has opened, but there will be nothing.+
20 Like waters* sudden terrors will overtake him;+At night a storm wind will certainly steal him away.
21 An east wind will carry him off+ and he will go away,And it will whirl him away from his place.+
22 And it will hurl itself at him and have no compassion;+From its power he will without fail try to run away.+
23 One will clap his hands at him+And will whistle+ at him from his place.*
Footnotes
^ “God.” Heb., ʼEl.
^ “God.” Heb., ʼElohʹah.
^ “God.” Heb., ʼElohʹah.
^ “God.” Heb., ʼEl.
^ Or, “earthling man.” Heb., ʼa·dhamʹ.
^ Or, “bread.”
^ Lit., “death.”
^ Or, “he will not be gathered,” M; LXXSy, “he will add nothing.”
^ “Like waters.” Or, “During the day,” by a correction.
^ Or, “[one passing] his place will whistle at it.”
