Job 27 – New International Version (NIV)
Job’s Final Word to His Friends
- And Job continued his discourse:
- “As surely as God lives, who has denied me justice, the Almighty, who has made my life bitter,
- as long as I have life within me, the breath of God in my nostrils,
- my lips will not say anything wicked, and my tongue will not utter lies.
- I will never admit you are in the right; till I die, I will not deny my integrity.
- I will maintain my innocence and never let go of it; my conscience will not reproach me as long as I live.
- “May my enemy be like the wicked, my adversary like the unjust!
- For what hope have the godless when they are cut off, when God takes away their life?
- Does God listen to their cry when distress comes upon them?
- Will they find delight in the Almighty? Will they call on God at all times?
- “I will teach you about the power of God; the ways of the Almighty I will not conceal.
- You have all seen this yourselves. Why then this meaningless talk?
- “Here is the fate God allots to the wicked, the heritage a ruthless man receives from the Almighty:
- However many his children, their fate is the sword; his offspring will never have enough to eat.
- The plague will bury those who survive him, and their widows will not weep for them.
- Though he heaps up silver like dust and clothes like piles of clay,
- what he lays up the righteous will wear, and the innocent will divide his silver.
- The house he builds is like a moth’s cocoon, like a hut made by a watchman.
- He lies down wealthy, but will do so no more; when he opens his eyes, all is gone.
- Terrors overtake him like a flood; a tempest snatches him away in the night.
- The east wind carries him off, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.
- It hurls itself against him without mercy as he flees headlong from its power.
- It claps its hands in derision and hisses him out of his place.”
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Job 27 – King James Version (KJV)
- Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,
- As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; And the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul;
- All the while my breath is in me, And the spirit of God is in my nostrils;
- My lips shall not speak wickedness, Nor my tongue utter deceit.
- God forbid that I should justify you: Till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me.
- My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: My heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.
- Let mine enemy be as the wicked, And he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous.
- For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, When God taketh away his soul?
- Will God hear his cry When trouble cometh upon him?
- Will he delight himself in the Almighty? Will he always call upon God?
- I will teach you by the hand of God: That which is with the Almighty will I not conceal.
- Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; Why then are ye thus altogether vain?
- This is the portion of a wicked man with God, And the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty.
- If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: And his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
- Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: And his widows shall not weep.
- Though he heap up silver as the dust, And prepare raiment as the clay;
- He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, And the innocent shall divide the silver.
- He buildeth his house as a moth, And as a booth that the keeper maketh.
- The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: He openeth his eyes, and he is not.
- Terrors take hold on him as waters, A tempest stealeth him away in the night.
- The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: And as a storm hurleth him out of his place.
- For God shall cast upon him, and not spare: He would fain flee out of his hand.
- Men shall clap their hands at him, And shall hiss him out of his place.
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