Job 27

1✦Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,

2✦As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul;

3✦All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;

4✦My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.

5✦God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me.

6✦My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.

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

8✦For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?

9✦Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him?

10✦Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?

11✦I will teach you by the hand of God: that which is with the Almighty will I not conceal.

12✦Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye thus altogether vain?

13✦This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty.

14✦If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

15✦Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep.

16✦Though he 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 buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper maketh.

19✦The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he openeth his eyes, and he is not.

20✦Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.

21✦The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.

22✦For God shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.

23✦Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.