Job persists in asserting his own innocence, and that hypocrites will
be punished in the end.
27:1. Job also added, taking up his parable, and said:
27:2. As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment, and the Almighty,
who hath brought my soul to bitterness,
27:3. As long as breath remaineth in me, and the spirit of God in my
nostrils,
27:4. My lips shall not speak iniquity, neither shall my tongue
contrive lying.
27:5. God forbid that I should judge you to be just: till I die I will
not depart from my innocence.
27:6. My justification, which I have begun to hold, I will not forsake:
for my heart doth not reprehend me in all my life.
27:7. Let my enemy be as the ungodly, and my adversary as the wicked
one.
27:8. For what is the hope of the hypocrite if through covetousness he
take by violence, and God deliver not his soul?
27:9. Will God hear his cry, when distress shall come upon him?
27:10. Or can he delight himself in the Almighty, and call upon God at
all times?
27:11. I will teach you by the hand of God, what the Almighty hath, and
I will not conceal it.
27:12. Behold you all know it, and why do you speak vain things without
cause?
27:13. This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the
inheritance of the violent, which they shall receive of the Almighty.
27:14. If his sons be multiplied, they shall be for the sword, and his
grandsons shall not be filled with bread.
27:15. They that shall remain of him, shall be buried in death, and his
widows shall not weep.
27:16. If he shall heap together silver as earth, and prepare raiment
as clay,
27:17. He shall prepare indeed, but the just man shall be clothed with
it: and the innocent shall divide the silver.
27:18. He hath built his house as a moth, and as a keeper he hath made
a booth.
27:19. The rich man when he shall sleep shall take away nothing with
him: he shall open his eyes and find nothing.
27:20. Poverty like water shall take hold on him, a tempest shall
oppress him in the night:
27:21. A burning wind shall take him up, and carry him away, and as a
whirlwind shall snatch him from his place.
27:22. And he shall cast upon him, and shall not spare: out of his hand
he would willingly flee.
27:23. He shall clasp his hands upon him, and shall hiss at him,
beholding his place.