Job 27 :: New International Version (NIV)

Job’s Final Word to His Friends

Job 27:1

Job 27:1And Job continued his discourse:

Job 27:2

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

Job 27:3

Job 27:3as long as I have life within me, the breath of God in my nostrils,

Job 27:4

Job 27:4my lips will not say anything wicked, and my tongue will not utter lies.

Job 27:5

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

Job 27:6

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

Job 27:7

Job 27:7“May my enemy be like the wicked, my adversary like the unjust!

Job 27:8

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

Job 27:9

Job 27:9Does God listen to their cry when distress comes upon them?

Job 27:10

Job 27:10Will they find delight in the Almighty? Will they call on God at all times?

Job 27:11

Job 27:11“I will teach you about the power of God; the ways of the Almighty I will not conceal.

Job 27:12

Job 27:12You have all seen this yourselves. Why then this meaningless talk?

Job 27:13

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

Job 27:14

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

Job 27:15

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

Job 27:16

Job 27:16Though he heaps up silver like dust and clothes like piles of clay,

Job 27:17

Job 27:17what he lays up the righteous will wear, and the innocent will divide his silver.

Job 27:18

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

Job 27:19

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

Job 27:20

Job 27:20Terrors overtake him like a flood; a tempest snatches him away in the night.

Job 27:21

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

Job 27:22

Job 27:22It hurls itself against him without mercy as he flees headlong from its power.

Job 27:23

Job 27:23It claps its hands in derision and hisses him out of his place.”

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Job 27 :: New International Version (NIV)

Job’s Final Word to His Friends

Job Chapter 27 — Additional Translations:

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