Job 27:1-23 - Job Continues His Final Speech

¹ And Job took up his discourse again: ² "As surely as God lives, who has denied me justice, the Almighty, who has made my life bitter -- ³ for while my spirit is still in me, and the breath from God is in my nostrils, ⁴ my lips will not speak wickedness, and my tongue will whisper no deceit. ⁵ I will never declare that you three are in the right; until I die, I will not set aside my integrity! ⁶ I will maintain my righteousness and never let it go; my conscience will not reproach me for as long as I live.

⁷ "May my enemy be like the wicked, my adversary like the unrighteous. ⁸ For what hope does the godless have when he is cut off, when God takes away his life? ⁹ Does God listen to his cry when distress overtakes him? ¹⁰ Will he find delight in the Almighty? Will he call out to God at all times? ¹¹ I will teach you about the power of God; What is on the Almighty's mind I will not conceal. ¹² If you yourselves have all seen this, Why in the world do you continue this meaningless talk?

¹³ This is the portion of the wicked man allotted by God, the inheritance that evildoers receive from the Almighty. ¹⁴ If his children increase -- it is for the sword! His offspring never have enough to eat. ¹⁵ Those who survive him are buried by the plague, and their widows do not mourn for them. ¹⁶ If he piles up silver like dust and stores up clothing like mounds of clay, ¹⁷ what he stores up a righteous man will wear, and an innocent man will inherit his silver. ¹⁸ The house he builds is as fragile as a moth's cocoon, like a hut that a watchman has made. ¹⁹ He goes to bed wealthy, but will do so no more. When he opens his eyes, it is all gone. ²⁰ Terrors overwhelm him like a flood; at night a whirlwind carries him off. ²¹ The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place. ²² It hurls itself against him without pity as he flees headlong from its power. ²³ It claps its hands at him in derision and hisses him away from his place.