Job 27 Parallel Bible Translations

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1 And Job adds to lift up his allegory and says: And Job again took up his discourse, and said: And Job continued his discourse:
2 “God lives! He turned aside my judgment, || And the Mighty—He made my soul bitter. “As God lives, who has taken away my right, and the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter, “As surely as God lives, who has denied me justice, the Almighty, who has made my life bitter,
3 For all the while my breath [is] in me, || And the wind of God in my nostrils. as long as my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils, as long as I have life within me, the breath of God in my nostrils,
4 My lips do not speak perverseness, || And my tongue does not utter deceit. my lips will not speak falsehood, and my tongue will not utter deceit. my lips will not say anything wicked, and my tongue will not utter lies.
5 Defilement to me—if I justify you, || Until I expire I do not turn aside my integrity from me. Far be it from me to say that you are right; till I die I will not put away my integrity from me. I will never admit you are in the right; till I die, I will not deny my integrity.
6 On my righteousness I have laid hold, || And I do not let it go, || My heart does not reproach me while I live. I hold fast my righteousness and will not let it go; my heart does not reproach me for any of my days. I will maintain my innocence and never let go of it; my conscience will not reproach me as long as I live.
7 My enemy is as the wicked, || And my withstander as the perverse. “Let my enemy be as the wicked, and let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous. “May my enemy be like the wicked, my adversary like the unjust!
8 For what [is] the hope of the profane, || When He cuts off? When God casts off his soul? For what is the hope of the godless when God cuts him off, when God takes away his life? For what hope have the godless when they are cut off, when God takes away their life?
9 [Does] God hear his cry, || When distress comes on him? Will God hear his cry when distress comes upon him? Does God listen to their cry when distress comes upon them?
10 Does he delight himself on the Mighty? Call God at all times? Will he take delight in the Almighty? Will he call upon God at all times? Will they find delight in the Almighty? Will they call on God at all times?
11 I show you by the hand of God, || That which [is] with the Mighty I do not hide. I will teach you concerning the hand of God; what is with the Almighty I will not conceal. “I will teach you about the power of God; the ways of the Almighty I will not conceal.
12 Behold, you—all of you—have seen, || And why [is] this—you are altogether vain? Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves; why then have you become altogether vain? You have all seen this yourselves. Why then this meaningless talk?
13 This [is] the portion of wicked man with God, || And the inheritance of terrible ones || They receive from the Mighty. “This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage that oppressors receive from the Almighty: “Here is the fate God allots to the wicked, the heritage a ruthless man receives from the Almighty:
14 If his sons multiply—a sword [is] for them. And his offspring [are] not satisfied [with] bread. If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword, and his descendants have not enough bread. However many his children, their fate is the sword; his offspring will never have enough to eat.
15 His remnant are buried in death, || And his widows do not weep. Those who survive him the pestilence buries, and his widows do not weep. The plague will bury those who survive him, and their widows will not weep for them.
16 If he heaps up silver as dust, || And prepares clothing as clay, Though he heap up silver like dust, and pile up clothing like clay, Though he heaps up silver like dust and clothes like piles of clay,
17 He prepares—and the righteous puts [it] on, || And the innocent apportions the silver. he may pile it up, but the righteous will wear it, and the innocent will divide the silver. what he lays up the righteous will wear, and the innocent will divide his silver.
18 He has built his house as a moth, || And as a shelter a watchman has made. He builds his house like a moth’s, like a booth that a watchman makes. The house he builds is like a moth’s cocoon, like a hut made by a watchman.
19 He lies down rich, and he is not gathered, || He has opened his eyes, and he is not. He goes to bed rich, but will do so no more; he opens his eyes, and his wealth is gone. He lies down wealthy, but will do so no more; when he opens his eyes, all is gone.
20 Terrors overtake him as waters, || By night a whirlwind has stolen him away. Terrors overtake him like a flood; in the night a whirlwind carries him off. Terrors overtake him like a flood; a tempest snatches him away in the night.
21 An east wind takes him up, and he goes, || And it frightens him from his place, The east wind lifts him up and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place. The east wind carries him off, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.
22 And it casts at him, and does not spare, || He diligently flees from its hand. It hurls at him without pity; he flees from its power in headlong flight. It hurls itself against him without mercy as he flees headlong from its power.
23 It claps its hands at him, || And it hisses at him from his place.” It claps its hands at him and hisses at him from its place. It claps its hands in derision and hisses him out of his place.”
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