Job 27

DOUAI-RHEIMS	NEW AMERICAN BIBLE
1 Job also added, taking up his parable, and said:
2 As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment, and the Almighty, who hath brought my soul to bitterness,	2 As God lives, who withholds my deserts, the Almighty, who has made bitter my soul,
3 As long as breath remaineth in me, and the spirit of God in my nostrils,	3 So long as I still have life in me and the breath of God is in my nostrils,
4 My lips shall not speak iniquity, neither shall my tongue contrive lying.	4 My lips shall not speak falsehood, nor my tongue utter deceit!
5 God forbid that I should judge you to be just: till I die I will not depart from my innocence.	5 Far be it from me to account you right; till I die I will not renounce my innocence.
6 My justification, which I have begun to hold, I will not forsake: for my heart doth not reprehend me in all my life.	6 My justice I maintain and I will not relinquish it; my heart does not reproach me for any of my days.
7 Let my enemy be as the ungodly, and my adversary as the wicked one.	7 Let my enemy be as the wicked and my adversary as the unjust!
8 For what is the hope of the hypocrite if through covetousness he take by violence, and God deliver not his soul?	8 For what can the impious man expect when he is cut off, when God requires his life?
9 Will God hear his cry, when distress shall come upon him?	9 Will God then attend to his cry when calamity comes upon him?
10 Or can he delight himself in the Almighty, and call upon God at all times?	10 Will he then delight in the Almighty and call upon him constantly?
11 I will teach you by the hand of God, what the Almighty hath, and I will not conceal it.	11 I will teach you the manner of God's dealings, and the way of the Almighty I will not conceal.
12 Behold you all know it, and why do you speak vain things without cause?	12 Behold, you yourselves have all seen it; why then do you spend yourselves in idle words!
13 This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the inheritance of the violent, which they shall receive of the Almighty.	13 This is the portion of a wicked man from God, the inheritance an oppressor receives from the Almighty:
14 If his sons be multiplied, they shall be for the sword, and his grandsons shall not be filled with bread.	14 Though his children be many, the sword is their destiny. His offspring shall not be filled with bread.
15 They that shall remain of him, shall be buried in death, and his widows shall not weep.	15 His survivors, when they die, shall have no burial, and their widows shall not be mourned.
16 If he shall heap together silver as earth, and prepare raiment as clay,	16 Though he heap up silver like dust and store away mounds of clothing,
17 He shall prepare indeed, but the just man shall be clothed with it: and the innocent shall divide the silver.	17 What he has stored the just man shall wear, and the innocent shall divide the silver.
18 He hath built his house as a moth, and as a keeper he hath made a booth.	18 He builds his house as of cobwebs, or like a booth put up by the vine-keeper.
19 The rich man when he shall sleep shall take away nothing with him: he shall open his eyes and find nothing.	19 He lies down a rich man, one last time; he opens his eyes and nothing remains to him.
20 Poverty like water shall take hold on him, a tempest shall oppress him in the night.	20 Terrors rush upon him by day; at night the tempest carries him off.
21 A burning wind shall take him up, and carry him away, and as a whirlwind shall snatch him from his place.	21 The storm wind seizes him and he disappears; it sweeps him out of his place.
22 And he shall cast upon him, and shall not spare: out of his hand he would willingly flee.
23 He shall clasp his hands upon him, and shall hiss at him, beholding his place.