Job 27.8
New International Version

Conclusion de Job

¹ And Job continued his discourse:

² “As surely as God lives, who has denied me justice,
the Almighty, who has made my life bitter,

³ as long as I have life within me,
the breath of God in my nostrils,

⁴ my lips will not say anything wicked,
and my tongue will not utter lies.

⁵ I will never admit you are in the right;
till I die, I will not deny my integrity.

⁶ I will maintain my innocence and never let go of it;
my conscience will not reproach me as long as I live.

⁷ “May my enemy be like the wicked,
my adversary like the unjust!

⁸ For what hope have the godless when they are cut off,
when God takes away their life?

⁹ Does God listen to their cry
when distress comes upon them?

¹⁰ Will they find delight in the Almighty?
Will they call on God at all times?

¹¹ “I will teach you about the power of God;
the ways of the Almighty I will not conceal.

¹² You have all seen this yourselves.
Why then this meaningless talk?

¹³ “Here is the fate God allots to the wicked,
the heritage a ruthless man receives from the Almighty:

¹⁴ However many his children, their fate is the sword;
his offspring will never have enough to eat.

¹⁵ The plague will bury those who survive him,
and their widows will not weep for them.

¹⁶ Though he heaps up silver like dust
and clothes like piles of clay,

¹⁷ what he lays up the righteous will wear,
and the innocent will divide his silver.

¹⁸ The house he builds is like a moth’s cocoon,
like a hut made by a watchman.

¹⁹ He lies down wealthy, but will do so no more;
when he opens his eyes, all is gone.

²⁰ Terrors overtake him like a flood;
a tempest snatches him away in the night.

²¹ The east wind carries him off, and he is gone;
it sweeps him out of his place.

²² It hurls itself against him without mercy
as he flees headlong from its power.

²³ It claps its hands in derision
and hisses him out of his place.”