Job 27

CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN	NEW AMERICAN BIBLE
1 Job also added to this, using figures of speech, and he said:
2 As God lives, who has taken away my judgment, and the Almighty, who has led my soul to bitterness,	2 As God lives, who withholds my deserts, the Almighty, who has made bitter my soul,
3 as long as my breath remains in me and the breath of God remains 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 will not speak iniquity, nor will my tongue devise lies.	4 My lips shall not speak falsehood, nor my tongue utter deceit!
5 Far be it from me that I should judge you to be right, for, until I expire, I will not withdraw from my innocence.	5 Far be it from me to account you right; till I die I will not renounce my innocence.
6 I will not forsake my justification, which I have just begun to grasp, for my heart does not find blame for me in my whole 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 the impious be as my enemy, and the sinful, as my adversary.	7 Let my enemy be as the wicked and my adversary as the unjust!
8 For what hope is there for the hypocrite, if he greedily plunders and God does not free his soul?	8 For what can the impious man expect when he is cut off, when God requires his life?
9 Will God pay attention to his cry, when anguish overcomes him?	9 Will God then attend to his cry when calamity comes upon him?
10 Or will he take delight 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 through the hand of God, what the Almighty holds, 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 know all this, and so why do you speak vain things without a reason?	12 Behold, you yourselves have all seen it; why then do you spend yourselves in idle words!
13 This is the portion of the impious man with God, and the inheritance of the violent, which they will receive from 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 should happen to increase, they will be for the sword, and his grandsons will not be satisfied with bread.	14 Though his children be many, the sword is their destiny. His offspring shall not be filled with bread.
15 Whatever will remain of him will be buried in the ruins, and his widows will not weep.	15 His survivors, when they die, shall have no burial, and their widows shall not be mourned.
16 If he will amass silver as if it were dirt and fabricate garments as if they were clay,	16 Though he heap up silver like dust and store away mounds of clothing,
17 then yes, he will gather, but the just will be clothed with it and the innocent will divide the silver.	17 What he has stored the just man shall wear, and the innocent shall divide the silver.
18 He has built his house like a moth, and he has made a makeshift shelter like a sentry.	18 He builds his house as of cobwebs, or like a booth put up by the vine-keeper.
19 When he falls asleep, the rich man will leave him with nothing; he will 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 Destitution will surround him like water; a storm will overwhelm him in the night.	20 Terrors rush upon him by day; at night the tempest carries him off.
21 A burning wind will pick him up and carry him away, and, like a whirlwind, it will rush him from his place.	21 The storm wind seizes him and he disappears; it sweeps him out of his place.
22 And it will hurl over him and will not spare him; fleeing from its power, he will go into exile.
23 He will clasp his hands over himself, and he will hiss at himself, while considering his situation.