Job 27

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1 And Job continued his parable, and said,
2 As God lives, deprived of [me] the court, and the Almighty, made my soul bitter,
3 All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils,
4 My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit!
5 Far be it from me that I should justify you; till I die I will not yield my integrity.
6 I hold fast my righteousness and will not let it; do not rebuke me in my heart my days.

7 Enemy Mine will be as the wicked, and rise up against me as the unrighteous.
8 For what is the hope of the hypocrite, when will, when God shall deliver his soul?
9 Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him?
10 Will he delight in the Almighty, and call upon God at all times?

eleven I will teach you by the hand of God; that is with the Almighty I will not hide.
12 Here, all of you have seen; and why do you so much idle talk?
13 This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage which oppressors receive from the Almighty.
14 If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword; and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
15 Those that remain of him shall bring death to the grave, and his widows shall not weep.
16 If he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;
17 He may prepare, but the righteous will wear, and the silver to your share blameless.
18 He builds, like a moth, his house, and as the keeper makes himself a hut;
19 He goes to bed rich, and thus did not rise; He opens his eyes, and he is not the same.
20 As the water come upon its horrors; in the night he steals the storm.
21 The east wind and the bear, and he quickly run away.
22 Cast upon him and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.
23 Throw up on its hands and posvischut over him from his place!

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