en_wbms - Job 27 - Ozzuu Bible

¹ Also Job added, taking his parable, and said,

² God liveth, that hath taken away my doom, and Almighty God, that hath brought my soul to bitterness.

³ For as long as breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils,

⁴ my lips shall not speak wicked-ness, neither my tongue shall think a leasing.

⁵ Far be it from me, that I deem you just [or rightwise]; till I fail, that is, as long as I live, I shall not go away from mine innocence.

⁶ I shall not forsake my justifying, which I began to hold; for mine heart reproveth me not in all my life.

⁷ As my wicked enemy doeth; mine adversary is as wicked.

⁸ For what is the hope of an hypocrite, if he ravisheth greedily, and God delivereth not his soul?

⁹ Whether God shall hear the cry of him, when anguish shall come upon him?

¹⁰ either whether he may delight in Almighty God, and inwardly call God in all time?

¹¹ I shall teach you by the hand of God, what things Almighty God hath; and I shall not hide them.

¹² Lo! all ye know, and what then speak ye vain things without cause?

¹³ This is the part of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of violent men, or raveners, which they shall take of Almighty God.

¹⁴ If his children be multiplied, they shall be killed with sword; and his sons shall not be [ful] filled with bread.

¹⁵ They, that be residue of him, shall be buried in perishing; and the widows of him shall not weep.

¹⁶ If he gathereth together silver as earth, and maketh ready clothes as clay;

¹⁷ soothly he made these things ready, but a just [or rightwise] man shall be clothed in those things, and an innocent man shall part the silver.

¹⁸ As a moth he hath builded his house, and as a keeper he made a shadowing place.

¹⁹ A rich man, when he shall die, shall bear nothing with him; he shall open his eyes, and he shall find nothing.

²⁰ Poverty as water shall take him; and tempest shall oppress him in the night.

²¹ Burning wind shall take him, and it shall do him away; and as a whirl-wind it shall ravish him from his place.

²² The Lord shall send out torments upon him, and shall not spare; he fleeing shall flee from his hand.

²³ He shall constrain his hands on him, and he shall hiss on him, and shall behold his place.