Job 27 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

Job Maintains His Integrity

The Hypocrite’s Hopelessness

Job 27:1

Job 27:1Moreover Job continued his discourse, and said:

Job 27:2

Job 27:2“As God lives, who has taken away my justice,
And the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter,

Job 27:3

Job 27:3As long as my breath is in me,
And the breath of God in my nostrils,

Job 27:4

Job 27:4My lips will not speak wickedness,
Nor my tongue utter deceit.

Job 27:5

Job 27:5Far be it from me
That I should say you are right;
Till I die I will not put away my integrity from me.

Job 27:6

Job 27:6My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go;
My heart shall not reproach me as long as I live.

Job 27:7

Job 27:7“May my enemy be like the wicked,
And he who rises up against me like the unrighteous.

Job 27:8

Job 27:8For what is the hope of the hypocrite,
Though he may gain much,
If God takes away his life?

Job 27:9

Job 27:9Will God hear his cry
When trouble comes upon him?

Job 27:10

Job 27:10Will he delight himself in the Almighty?
Will he always call on God?

Job 27:11

Job 27:11“I will teach you about the hand of God;
What is with the Almighty I will not conceal.

Job 27:12

Job 27:12Surely all of you have seen it;
Why then do you behave with complete nonsense?

Job 27:13

Job 27:13“This is the portion of a wicked man with God,
And the heritage of oppressors, received from the Almighty:

Job 27:14

Job 27:14If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword;
And his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

Job 27:15

Job 27:15Those who survive him shall be buried in death,
And their[fn] widows shall not weep,

Job 27:16

Job 27:16Though he heaps up silver like dust,
And piles up clothing like clay—

Job 27:17

Job 27:17He may pile it up, but the just will wear it,
And the innocent will divide the silver.

Job 27:18

Job 27:18He builds his house like a moth,[fn]
Like a booth which a watchman makes.

Job 27:19

Job 27:19The rich man will lie down,
But not be gathered up;[fn]
He opens his eyes,
And he is no more.

Job 27:20

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

Job 27:21

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

Job 27:22

Job 27:22It hurls against him and does not spare;
He flees desperately from its power.

Job 27:23

Job 27:23Men shall clap their hands at him,
And shall hiss him out of his place.

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NKJV Footnotes

(27:15)

Literally his

(27:18)

Following Masoretic Text and Vulgate; Septuagint and Syriac read spider (compare 8:14); Targum reads decay.

(27:19)

Following Masoretic Text and Targum; Septuagint and Syriac read But shall not add (that is, do it again); Vulgate reads But take away nothing.

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