Job 27 WBT
Summary: Job takes up his discourse again, swearing by the God who has denied him justice that he will not admit his friends are right, and will maintain his integrity and a clear conscience until he dies, refusing to say what is false. He then turns, somewhat surprisingly, to describe the grim fate of the wicked in terms similar to his friends' earlier speeches, saying the hypocrite's hope will perish, that though he pile up silver it is the righteous who will wear it, and that terror and the east wind will sweep him away. Many scholars view this final section as either Job's ironic concession of a truth he still finds incomplete, or as material that originally belonged to Zophar's missing third speech.
1Moreover, Job continued his parable, and said,
2[As] God liveth, [who] hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty [who] hath afflicted my soul;
3All the while my breath [is] in me, and the spirit of God [is] in my nostrils;
4My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.
5Far be it from me that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove my integrity from me.
6My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach [me] so long as I live.
7Let my enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous.
8For what [is] the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?
9Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him?
10Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?
11I will teach you by the hand of God: [that] which [is] with the Almighty will I not conceal.
12Behold, all ye yourselves have seen [it]; why then are ye thus altogether vain?
13This [is] the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, [which] they shall receive of the Almighty.
14If his children are multiplied, [it is] for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
15Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep.
16Though he should heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay?
17He may prepare [it], but the just shall put [it] on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.
18He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth [that] the keeper maketh.
19The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he openeth his eyes, and he [is] not.
20Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.
21The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.
22For [God] shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.
23[Men] shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.
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