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 Continues
I Am Desperate
1Job said:
2I am desperate because
God All-Powerful refuses
to do what is right.
As surely as God lives,
3and while he gives me breath,
4I will tell only the truth.
5Until the day I die,
I will refuse to do wrong
by saying you are right,
6because each day my conscience
agrees that I am innocent.
7I pray that my enemies
will suffer no less
than the wicked.
8Such people are hopeless,
and God All-Powerful
will cut them down,
9without listening
when they beg for mercy.
10And that is what God should do,
because they don't like him
or ever pray.
11Now I will explain in detail
what God All-Powerful does.
12All of you have seen these things
for yourselves.
So you have no excuse.
How God Treats the Wicked
13Here is how God All-Powerful
treats those who are wicked
and brutal.
14They may have many children,
but most of them will go hungry
or suffer a violent death.
15Others will die of disease,
and their widows
won't be able to weep.
16The wicked may collect riches
and clothes in abundance
as easily as clay.
17But God's people will wear
clothes taken from them
and divide up their riches.
18No homes built by the wicked
will outlast a cocoon
or a shack.
19Those sinners may go to bed rich,
but they will wake up poor.#27.19 poor: Or “dead.”
20Terror will strike at night
like a flood or a storm.
21Then a scorching wind
will sweep them away
22without showing mercy,
as they try to escape.
23At last, the wind will celebrate
because they are gone.
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