Job 27

¹Job also added, taking his parable, and said:

²God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment, and the Omnipotent, which hath brought my soul to bitterness.

³That as long as breath remaineth in me, and the spirit of God in my nostrils,

⁴My lips shall not speak iniquity, neither shall my tongue meditate lying.

⁵God forbid that I should judge you to be just: till I fail, I will not depart from mine innocency.

⁶My justification which I have begun to hold, I will not forsake: for my heart doth not reprehend me in all my life.

⁷Let mine enemy be as the impious, and mine adversary as the wicked one.

⁸For what is the hypocrite's hope, if covetously he take by violence, and God deliver not his soul?

⁹Will God hear his cry, when distress shall come upon him?

¹⁰Or can he be delighted in the Omnipotent, and invocate God at all time?

¹¹I will teach you by the hand of God, what the Omnipotent hath, neither will I hide it.

¹²Lo, you do all know, and why speak you vain things without cause?

¹³This is the portion of an impious man with God, and inheritance of the violent, which they shall receive of the Omnipotent.

¹⁴If his children be multiplied, they shall be in the sword, & his nephews shall not be filled with bread.

¹⁵They that shall be left of him, shall be buried in death, and his widows shall not weep.

¹⁶If he shall heap together silver as earth, and as clay shall prepare garments:

¹⁷He shall prepare indeed, but the just man shall be clothed with them: and the innocent shall divide the silver.

¹⁸He hath built his house as a moth, and as a keeper hath he made a bower.

¹⁹The rich man when he shall sleep shall take away nothing with him: he shall open his eyes, and find nothing.

²⁰Poverty as water shall apprehend him, in the night a tempest shall oppress him.

²¹The burning wind shall take him up, and carry him away, and as a whirlwind shall pull him violently out of his place.

²²And he shall cast upon him, and shall not spare: out of his hand flying he shall fly.

²³He shall clasp his hands upon him, and shall hiss upon him, beholding his place.