Job 27

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