Help QuickNav Adv. Options
NIV

NIV

Click to Change

Return to Top

Return to Top

Printer Icon

Print

Copy
Copy Options
Format by: Verse Paragraph
Strong's
Red Letter
Audio Bibles
Copy Options
Cite Print
The Blue Letter Bible

Job 27 :: New International Version (NIV)

Choose a new font size and typeface
Audio Bibles

Job’s Final Word to His Friends

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Job 27:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:1 - And Job continued his discourse:

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Job 27:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:2 - “As surely as God lives, who has denied me justice, the Almighty, who has made my life bitter,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Job 27:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:3 - as long as I have life within me, the breath of God in my nostrils,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Job 27:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:4 - my lips will not say anything wicked, and my tongue will not utter lies.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Job 27:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:5 - I will never admit you are in the right; till I die, I will not deny my integrity.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Job 27:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:6 - I will maintain my innocence and never let go of it; my conscience will not reproach me as long as I live.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Job 27:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:7 - “May my enemy be like the wicked, my adversary like the unjust!

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Job 27:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:8 - For what hope have the godless when they are cut off, when God takes away their life?

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Job 27:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:9 - Does God listen to their cry when distress comes upon them?

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Job 27:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:10 - Will they find delight in the Almighty? Will they call on God at all times?

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Job 27:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:11 - “I will teach you about the power of God; the ways of the Almighty I will not conceal.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Job 27:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:12 - You have all seen this yourselves. Why then this meaningless talk?

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Job 27:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:13 - “Here is the fate God allots to the wicked, the heritage a ruthless man receives from the Almighty:

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Job 27:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:14 - However many his children, their fate is the sword; his offspring will never have enough to eat.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Job 27:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:15 - The plague will bury those who survive him, and their widows will not weep for them.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Job 27:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:16 - Though he heaps up silver like dust and clothes like piles of clay,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Job 27:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:17 - what he lays up the righteous will wear, and the innocent will divide his silver.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Job 27:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:18 - The house he builds is like a moth’s cocoon, like a hut made by a watchman.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Job 27:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:19 - He lies down wealthy, but will do so no more; when he opens his eyes, all is gone.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Job 27:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:20 - Terrors overtake him like a flood; a tempest snatches him away in the night.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Job 27:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:21 - The east wind carries him off, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Job 27:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:22 - It hurls itself against him without mercy as he flees headlong from its power.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Job 27:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:23 - It claps its hands in derision and hisses him out of his place.”
See the NIV Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
NIV

THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®, NIV®
Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.®
Used by Permission of Biblica, Inc.® All rights reserved worldwide.


See detailed copyright information.

For more information on this translation, see the NIV Preface.

BLB Searches
Search the Bible
NIV
  [?]

Advanced Options

Other Searches

Multi-Verse Retrieval
x
NIV
Daily Devotionals
x

Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness.

Daily Bible Reading Plans
x

Recognizing the value of consistent reflection upon the Word of God in order to refocus one's mind and heart upon Christ and His Gospel of peace, we provide several reading plans designed to cover the entire Bible in a year.

One-Year Plans

Two-Year Plan

Job Chapter 27 — Additional Translations:

King James Version New King James Version New Living Translation English Standard Version Christian Standard Bible New American Standard Bible 2020 New American Standard Bible 1995 Legacy Standard Bible Amplified Bible New English Translation Revised Standard Version American Standard Version Young's Literal Translation Darby Translation Webster's Bible Hebrew Names Version Latin Vulgate Westminster Leningrad Codex Septuagint Smith Van Dyck Arabic Bible Open New Arabic Version Brenton's English Septuagint Reina Valera 1909 Reina-Valera 1960 Bible in Basic English Chinese Traditional Union Espanol Moderno Korean Holy Bible Louis Segond German Luther Russian Synodal Translation Sagradas Escrituras