Job 27

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

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1Job's final defense:

2“I vow by the living God, who has taken away my rights, even the Almighty God who has embittered my soul,

3that as long as I live, while I have breath from God,

4my lips shall speak no evil, my tongue shall speak no lies.

5I will never, never agree that you are right; until I die I will vow my innocence.

6I am not a sinner—I repeat it again and again. My conscience is clear for as long as I live.

7Those who declare otherwise are my wicked enemies. They are evil men.

8“But what hope has the godless when God cuts him off and takes away his life?

9Will God listen to his cry when trouble comes upon him?

10For he does not delight himself in the Almighty or pay any attention to God except in times of crisis.

11“I will teach you about God—

12but really, I don't need to, for you yourselves know as much about him as I do; yet you are saying all these useless things to me.

13“This is the fate awaiting the wicked from the hand of the Almighty:

14If he has a multitude of children, it is so that they will die in war or starve to death.

15Those who survive shall be brought down to the grave by disease and plague, with no one to mourn them, not even their wives.

16“The evil man may accumulate money like dust, with closets jammed full of clothing—

17yes, he may order them made by his tailor, but the innocent shall wear that clothing and shall divide his silver among them.

18Every house built by the wicked is as fragile as a spider web, as full of cracks as a leafy booth!

19“He goes to bed rich but wakes up to find that all his wealth is gone.

20Terror overwhelms him, and he is blown away in the storms of the night.

21The east wind carries him away, and he is gone. It sweeps him into eternity.

22For God shall hurl at him unsparingly. He longs to flee from God.

23Everyone will cheer at his death and boo him into eternity.

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