The Book of Job

27: 1And Job again took up his parable, and said,

 ^27:2As God liveth, who hath taken away my right,

 And the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul:

 ^27:3(For my life is yet whole in me,

 And the spirit of God is in my nostrils);

 ^27:4Surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness,

 Neither shall my tongue utter deceit.

 ^27:5Far be it from me that I should justify you:

 Till I die I will not put away mine integrity from me.

 ^27:6My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go:

 My heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.

 ^27:7Let mine enemy be as the wicked,

 And let him that riseth up against me be as the unrighteous.
 
 

 ^27:8For what is the hope of the godless, though he get him gain,

 When God taketh away his soul?

 ^27:9Will God hear his cry,

 When trouble cometh upon him?

 ^27:10Will he delight himself in the Almighty,

 And call upon God at all times?

 ^27:11I will teach you concerning the hand of God;

 That which is with the Almighty will I not conceal.

 ^27:12Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it;

 Why then are ye become altogether vain?
 
 

 ^27:13This is the portion of a wicked man with God,

 And the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty:

 ^27:14If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword;

 And his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

 ^27:15Those that remain of him shall be buried in death,

 And his widows shall make no lamentation.

 ^27:16Though he heap up silver as the dust,

 And prepare raiment as the clay;

 ^27:17He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on,

 And the innocent shall divide the silver.

 ^27:18He buildeth his house as the moth,

 And as a booth which the keeper maketh.

 ^27:19He lieth down rich, but he shall not be gathered to his fathers;

 He openeth his eyes, and he is not.

 ^27:20Terrors overtake him like waters;

 A tempest stealeth him away in the night.

 ^27:21The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth;

 And it sweepeth him out of his place.

 ^27:22For God shall hurl at him, and not spare:

 He would fain flee out of his hand.

 ^27:23Men shall clap their hands at him,

 And shall hiss him out of his place.