Job 27
27
What Hope has the Godless?
1And Job took up his discourse again, saying:
2“As God lives, who has deprived me of justice, Shaddai who has made my soul bitter,
3as long as my breath is still in me, the Ruach of God in my nostrils,
4my lips will speak no injustice, nor will my tongue mutter deceit.
5Far be it from me to say that you are just; until I die, I will not set aside my integrity!
6I will maintain my righteousness, and not let it go; my conscience will not reproach me for any of my days.
7“May my enemy be like the wicked my enemy like the unrighteous.
8For what hope has the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes his soul?
9Will God hear his cry when trouble comes upon him?
10Will he delight in Shaddai? Will he call upon God at all times?
11I will teach you about the hand of God; I will not conceal the ways of Shaddai.
12Look, you have all seen this yourselves. Why then this meaningless talk?
13“This is the portion of a wicked man with God, the inheritance that ruthless men receive from Shaddai.
14If his children increase— it is for the sword. His offspring will never have enough to eat.
15Those who survive him will be buried by the plague, and their widows will not weep.
16Though he piles up silver like dust, and clothing like heaps of mortar,
17what he lays up, the righteous will wear, and the upright will divide the silver.
18The house he built is like a moth’s cocoon, like a hut made for a watchman.
19“He lies down wealthy, but will gather no more. When he opens his eyes, all is gone!
20Terrors overtake him like a flood; a storm sweeps him away at night.
21The east wind picks him up and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.
22It hurls itself at him without pity as he flees headlong from its hand.
23It claps its hands at him in derision, and hisses him out of his place.”
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Job 27
27
Job’s Last Words to His Friends
1#Nu 23:7; Job 29:1Moreover Job continued his discourse:
2#Job 34:5; 2Ki 4:27 “As God lives, who has taken away my judgment,
and the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter,
3#Ge 2:7; Job 33:4 all the while my spirit is in me,
and the breath of God is in my nostrils,
4#Job 13:7 my lips will not speak wickedness,
nor my tongue utter deceit.
5#Job 2:9; 13:15 God forbid that I should justify you.
Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.
6#Job 2:3; Ac 24:16 My righteousness I hold fast and will not let it go;
my heart will not reproach me as long as I live.
7“Let my enemy be like the wicked,
and he who rises up against me like the unrighteous.
8#Job 11:20; 8:13 For what is the hope of the hypocrite,
though he may gain much, when God takes away his soul?
9#Pr 1:28; Isa 1:15 Will God hear his cry
when trouble comes upon him?
10#Job 22:26–27; Ps 37:4 Will he delight himself in the Almighty?
Will he always call upon God?
11“I will teach you about the hand of God;
what is with the Almighty I will not conceal.
12Look, all of you have seen it;
why then have you become altogether vain?
13“This is the portion of a wicked man with God,
and the inheritance that oppressors receive from the Almighty:
14#Dt 28:41 If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword,
and his offspring will not be satisfied with bread.
15#Ps 78:64 Those who survive him will be buried in death,
and their widows will not weep.
16#Zec 9:3 Though he heaps up silver like the dust
and piles up clothing like the clay—
17#Ecc 2:26; Pr 13:22 he may pile it up, but the just will wear it,
and the innocent will divide the silver.
18#Job 8:14–15; Isa 1:8 He builds his house like a moth,
and like a booth that the watchman makes.
19#Job 24:24; Jer 8:2 The rich man will lie down, but he will not be gathered;
he opens his eyes, and he is not.
20#Job 15:21; 18:11 Terrors overtake him like floodwaters;
a tempest steals him away in the night.
21The east wind carries him away, and he departs;
it sweeps him out of his place.
22For God will cast it upon him and not spare;
he would flee from its power.
23#La 2:15; Zep 2:15 Men will clap their hands at him
and will hiss him out of his place.
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