Job 27 :: New Living Translation (NLT)

Job’s Final Speech

Job 27:1

Job 27:1Job continued speaking:

Job 27:2

Job 27:2“I vow by the living God, who has taken away my rights,
by the Almighty who has embittered my soul—

Job 27:3

Job 27:3As long as I live,
while I have breath from God,

Job 27:4

Job 27:4my lips will speak no evil,
and my tongue will speak no lies.

Job 27:5

Job 27:5I will never concede that you are right;
I will defend my integrity until I die.

Job 27:6

Job 27:6I will maintain my innocence without wavering.
My conscience is clear for as long as I live.

Job 27:7

Job 27:7“May my enemy be punished like the wicked,
my adversary like those who do evil.

Job 27:8

Job 27:8For what hope do the godless have when God cuts them off
and takes away their life?

Job 27:9

Job 27:9Will God listen to their cry
when trouble comes upon them?

Job 27:10

Job 27:10Can they take delight in the Almighty?
Can they call to God at any time?

Job 27:11

Job 27:11I will teach you about God’s power.
I will not conceal anything concerning the Almighty.

Job 27:12

Job 27:12But you have seen all this,
yet you say all these useless things to me.

Job 27:13

Job 27:13“This is what the wicked will receive from God;
this is their inheritance from the Almighty.

Job 27:14

Job 27:14They may have many children,
but the children will die in war or starve to death.

Job 27:15

Job 27:15Those who survive will die of a plague,
and not even their widows will mourn them.

Job 27:16

Job 27:16“Evil people may have piles of money
and may store away mounds of clothing.

Job 27:17

Job 27:17But the righteous will wear that clothing,
and the innocent will divide that money.

Job 27:18

Job 27:18The wicked build houses as fragile as a spider’s web,[fn]
as flimsy as a shelter made of branches.

Job 27:19

Job 27:19The wicked go to bed rich
but wake to find that all their wealth is gone.

Job 27:20

Job 27:20Terror overwhelms them like a flood,
and they are blown away in the storms of the night.

Job 27:21

Job 27:21The east wind carries them away, and they are gone.
It sweeps them away.

Job 27:22

Job 27:22It whirls down on them without mercy.
They struggle to flee from its power.

Job 27:23

Job 27:23But everyone jeers at them
and mocks them.

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NLT Footnotes

(27:18)

As in Greek and Syriac versions (see also 8:14); Hebrew reads a moth.

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