Job, 27

1. Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,

1. Job continued his discourse:

2. [As] God liveth, [who] hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, [who] hath vexed my soul;

2. As surely as God lives, who denies my right, the Almighty, who has made me bitter,

3. All the while my breath [is] in me, and the spirit of God [is] in my nostrils;

3. as long as I have life within me and God's breath in my nostrils,

4. My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.

4. my lips will not speak falsehood nor my tongue utter deceit.

5. God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me.

5. Never will I admit you are right, nor deny my integrity till I die.

6. My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach [me] so long as I live.

6. Never will I let go of my righteousness; my conscience is not put to shame.

7. Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous.

7. Let my enemy be as the wicked and my adversary as the unrighteous.

8. For what [is] the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?

8. For what hope has the godless when God cuts him off, when God takes away his life?

9. Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him?

9. God will not listen to his call when he is beset by trouble.

10. Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?

10. For he did not delight in the Almighty or call upon him constantly.

11. I will teach you by the hand of God: [that] which [is] with the Almighty will I not conceal.

11. See, I tell you the deeds of God and do not conceal the ways of the Almighty.

12. Behold, all ye yourselves have seen [it]; why then are ye thus altogether vain?

12. You have witnessed this yourselves. Why then these empty words? Third discourse of Nahama

13. This [is] the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, [which] they shall receive of the Almighty.

13. This is a wicked man's portion from God, the heritage of an oppressor which he receives from the Almighty.

14. If his children be multiplied, [it is] for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

14. Though his children be many, the sword is their destiny. His offspring will go hungry.

15. Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep.

15. The plague will bury those who survive, and their widows will not mourn for them.

16. Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;

16. He may heap up silver like dust and pile up clothes like clay,

17. He may prepare [it], but the just shall put [it] on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.

17. but what he stores, the just will wear, and the innocent divide his silver.

18. He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth [that] the keeper maketh.

18. He builds his house like a cobweb, or like the hut a watchman makes.

19. The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he openeth his eyes, and he [is] not.

19. Once more he lies down rich and wakes to see his wealth all gone.

20. Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.

20. Terrors rush upon him by day; at night a whirlwind carries him away.

21. The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.

21. The east wind lifts him up, and he disappears as it sweeps him out of his place.

22. For [God] shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.

22. People strike at him without mercy as he flees headlong from their hands.

23. [Men] shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.

23. They clap their hands in mockery and hiss at him from where they are.