Job Continues His Final Speech

27 Then[fn] Job again took up his discourse and said,

• 2 “As God lives,[fn] he has removed my justice, and Shaddai has made my inner self[fn] bitter.
• 3 For as long as[fn] my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nose,
• 4 my lips surely will not speak falseness, and my tongue surely will not utter deceit.
• 5 Far be it from me that I would say that you[fn] are right ;[fn] until I pass away, I will not put away from me my blamelessness.
• 6 I hold fast to my righteousness, and I will not let it go; my heart will not blame any of my days.
• 7 “Let my enemy be like the wicked and my opponent like the unrighteous,
• 8 for what is the hope of the godless when he cuts them off, when God takes away his life?
• 9 Will God hear his cry of distress when distress comes upon him?
• 10 Or, in Shaddai will he find delight? Will he call upon God at all times?
• 11 “I will teach you[fn] about[fn] God’s hand; I will not conceal that which is with Shaddai.
• 12 Look, you all have seen, and why in the world[fn] have you become altogether vain ?[fn]
• 13 “This is the portion of the wicked human being with God, and they receive from Shaddai the inheritance of the ruthless.
• 14 If their children multiply, it is for the sword, and his offspring do not have enough to eat .[fn]
• 15 Their[fn] survivors are buried through[fn] the plague, and their[fn] widows do not weep.
• 16 If he heaps up silver like the dust and fashions clothing like the clay,
• 17 he makes it ready, and the righteous will wear it, and the innocent will divide the silver.
• 18 “He builds his house like the moth, and like a booth that a watchman has made.
• 19 He goes to bed with wealth, but[fn] he will do so no more;[fn] he opens his eyes, and it is gone .[fn]
• 20 Terrors overtake him like the water; a storm wind carries him off in the night.
• 21 The east wind lifts him up, and he is gone, and it sweeps him away from his place.
• 22 And it hurls at him, and it has no compassion; he will quickly flee from its power.
• 23 It claps its hands over him, and it hisses at him from its place.