1898 Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

Job 27

1 Job protesteth his sincerety. 8 The hypocrite is without hope. 11 The blessings which the wicked have are turned into curses.

 27:1 ¶ And Job addeth to lift up his simile, and saith:—

 27:2 God liveth! He turned aside my judgment, And the Mighty—He made my soul bitter.

 27:3 For all the while my breath [is] in me, And the spirit of God in my nostrils.

 27:4 My lips do not speak perverseness, And my tongue doth not utter deceit.

 27:5 Pollution to me—if I justify you, Till I expire I turn not aside mine integrity from me.

 27:6 On my righteousness I have laid hold, And I do not let it go, My heart doth not reproach me while I live.

 27:7 As the wicked is my enemy, And my withstander as the perverse.

 27:8 For what [is] the hope of the profane, When He doth cut off? When God doth cast off his soul?

 27:9 His cry doth God hear, When distress cometh on him?

 27:10 On the Mighty doth he delight himself? Call God at all times?

 27:11 I shew you by the hand of God, That which [is] with the Mighty I hide not.

 27:12 Lo, ye—all of you—have seen, And why [is] this—ye are altogether vain?

 27:13 This [is] the portion of wicked man with God, And the inheritance of terrible ones From the Mighty they receive.

 27:14 If his sons multiply—for them [is] a sword. And his offspring [are] not satisfied [with] bread.

 27:15 His remnant in death are buried, And his widows do not weep.

 27:16 If he heap up as dust silver, And as clay prepare clothing,

 27:17 He prepareth—and the righteous putteth [it] on, And the silver the innocent doth apportion.

 27:18 He hath built as a moth his house, And as a booth a watchman hath made.

 27:19 Rich he lieth down, and he is not gathered, His eyes he hath opened, and he is not.

 27:20 Overtake him as waters do terrors, By night stolen him away hath a whirlwind.

 27:21 Take him up doth an east wind, and he goeth, And it frighteneth him from his place,

 27:22 And it casteth at him, and doth not spare, From its hand he diligently fleeth.

 27:23 It clappeth at him its hands, And it hisseth at him from his place.