Job 27

Job Continues His Final Speech

1Then Job again took up his discourse and said,[#Hebrew “And”]

2“As God lives, he has removed my justice,[#Literally “The life of God”]

and Shaddai has made my inner self bitter.

3For as long as my breath is in me,[#Literally “all of still”]

and the spirit of God is in my nose,

4my lips surely will not speak falseness,

and my tongue surely will not utter deceit.

5Far be it from me that I would say that you are right;[#Plural; #Literally “I would declare you as in the right”]

until I pass away, I will not put away from me my blamelessness.

6I hold fast to my righteousness, and I will not let it go;

my heart will not blame any of my days.

7“Let my enemy be like the wicked

and my opponent like the unrighteous,

8for what is the hope of the godless when he cuts them off,

when God takes away his life?

9Will God hear his cry of distress

when distress comes upon him?

10Or, in Shaddai will he find delight?

Will he call upon God at all times?

11“I will teach you about God’s hand;[#Plural; #Or “concerning”]

I will not conceal that which is with Shaddai.

12Look, you all have seen,

and why in the world have you become altogether vain?

13“This is the portion of the wicked human being with God,

and they receive from Shaddai the inheritance of the ruthless.

14If their children multiply, it is for the sword,

and his offspring do not have enough to eat.

15Their survivors are buried through the plague,[#Hebrew “His”; #Or “because of”]

and their widows do not weep.

16If he heaps up silver like the dust

and fashions clothing like the clay,

17he makes it ready, and the righteous will wear it,

and the innocent will divide the silver.

18“He builds his house like the moth,

and like a booth that a watchman has made.

19He goes to bed with wealth, but he will do so no more;[#Hebrew “and”; #Literally “he will not do again”]

he opens his eyes, and it is gone.

20Terrors overtake him like the water;

a storm wind carries him off in the night.

21The east wind lifts him up, and he is gone,

and it sweeps him away from his place.

22And it hurls at him, and it has no compassion;

he will quickly flee from its power.

23It claps its hands over him,

and it hisses at him from its place.

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