Job 27 · איוב

And Iyyov continued his discourse, and said,

As God lives, who has taken away my right; and the Almighty, who has embittered my soul;

all the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;

my lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.

Far be it from me that I should justify you: till I die I will not put away my integrity from me.

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

Let my enemy be as the wicked, and he who rises up against me as the unrighteous.

For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he has gained, when God takes away his soul?

Will God hear his cry when trouble comes upon him?

Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?

I will teach you concerning the hand of God: that which is with the Almighty will I not conceal.

Behold, all you yourselves have seen it; why then do you thus altogether breathe emptiness?

This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty.

If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

Those that remain of him shall be buried by some other death: and his widows shall not weep.

Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;

he may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.

He builds his house like the moth, and as a booth which the watchman makes.

A rich man shall he lie down, as though his wealth could not be summed up: he opens his eyes, and it is gone.

Terrors overtake him like waters; a tempest steals him away in the night.

The east wind carries him away, and he departs: and it hurts him out of his place.

It hurls itself at him, and does not spare: he would fain flee out of its hand.

Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.