Job · Young's Literal Translation
Job 27 Young's Literal Translation
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1 And Job addeth to lift up his simile, and saith: —
1 Job again took up his parable, and said,
2 God liveth! He turned aside my judgment, And the Mighty — He made my soul bitter.
2 “As God lives, who has taken away my right, the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter
3 For all the while my breath [is] in me, And the spirit of God in my nostrils.
3 (for the length of my life is still in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils);
4 My lips do not speak perverseness, And my tongue doth not utter deceit.
4 surely my lips will not speak unrighteousness, neither will my tongue utter deceit.
5 Pollution to me — if I justify you, Till I expire I turn not aside mine integrity from me.
5 Far be it from me that I should justify you. Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.
6 On my righteousness I have laid hold, And I do not let it go, My heart doth not reproach me while I live.
6 I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart will not reproach me so long as I live.
7 As the wicked is my enemy, And my withstander as the perverse.
7 “Let my enemy be as the wicked. Let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous.
8 For what [is] the hope of the profane, When He doth cut off? When God doth cast off his soul?
8 For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?
9 His cry doth God hear, When distress cometh on him?
9 Will God hear his cry when trouble comes on him?
10 On the Mighty doth he delight himself? Call God at all times?
10 Will he delight himself in the Almighty, and call on God at all times?
11 I shew you by the hand of God, That which [is] with the Mighty I hide not.
11 I will teach you about the hand of God. I will not conceal that which is with the Almighty.
12 Lo, ye — all of you — have seen, And why [is] this — ye are altogether vain?
12 Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves; why then have you become altogether vain?
13 This [is] the portion of wicked man with God, And the inheritance of terrible ones From the Mighty they receive.
13 “This is the portion of a wicked man with God, the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty.
14 If his sons multiply — for them [is] a sword. And his offspring [are] not satisfied [with] bread.
14 If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword. His offspring will not be satisfied with bread.
15 His remnant in death are buried, And his widows do not weep.
15 Those who remain of him will be buried in death. His widows will make no lamentation.
16 If he heap up as dust silver, And as clay prepare clothing,
16 Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare clothing as the clay;
17 He prepareth — and the righteous putteth [it] on, And the silver the innocent doth apportion.
17 he may prepare it, but the just will put it on, and the innocent will divide the silver.
18 He hath built as a moth his house, And as a booth a watchman hath made.
18 He builds his house as the moth, as a booth which the watchman makes.
19 Rich he lieth down, and he is not gathered, His eyes he hath opened, and he is not.
19 He lies down rich, but he will not do so again. He opens his eyes, and he is not.
20 Overtake him as waters do terrors, By night stolen him away hath a whirlwind.
20 Terrors overtake him like waters. A storm steals him away in the night.
21 Take him up doth an east wind, and he goeth, And it frighteneth him from his place,
21 The east wind carries him away, and he departs. It sweeps him out of his place.
22 And it casteth at him, and doth not spare, From its hand he diligently fleeth.
22 For it hurls at him, and does not spare, as he flees away from his hand.
23 It clappeth at him its hands, And it hisseth at him from his place.
23 Men will clap their hands at him, and will hiss him out of his place.
Cross references (23)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Numbers 24:15; Numbers 23:7; Job 29:1; Proverbs 26:7; Numbers 24:3
- 2 Job 34:5; 2 Kings 4:27; Numbers 14:21; 1 Kings 18:15; Isaiah 40:27
- 3 Genesis 2:7; Job 33:4; Isaiah 2:22; Job 32:8; Acts 17:25
- 4 Job 13:7; Job 6:28; John 8:55; 2 Corinthians 11:10; Job 34:6
- 5 Job 2:9; Job 13:15; Job 42:7; Proverbs 17:15; Job 29:14
- 6 Job 2:3; Acts 24:16; 1 John 3:20–21; Proverbs 4:13; 2 Corinthians 12:11
- 7 Daniel 4:19; 2 Samuel 18:32; 1 Samuel 25:26
- 8 Matthew 16:26; Job 8:13; Luke 12:20–21; Job 11:20; James 5:1–3
- 9 Jeremiah 14:12; Proverbs 1:28; Isaiah 1:15; Job 35:12–13; Psalm 18:41
- 10 Job 22:26–27; Psalm 37:4; Habakkuk 3:18; Psalm 43:4; Psalm 78:34–36
- 11 Psalm 71:17; Job 4:3–4; Isaiah 8:11; Deuteronomy 4:5; Job 6:10
- 12 Job 16:3; Job 21:3; Job 19:2–3; Job 6:25–29; Job 13:4–9
- 13 Job 20:19–29; 2 Peter 2:9; Job 15:20–35; Isaiah 3:11; Psalm 11:6
- 14 Deuteronomy 28:41; Luke 23:29; Job 20:10; Esther 5:11; Psalm 109:13
- 15 Psalm 78:64; 1 Kings 16:3–4; Jeremiah 22:18; 1 Kings 21:21–24; 1 Kings 14:10–11
- 16 Zechariah 9:3; Matthew 6:19; Job 22:24; James 5:2; Habakkuk 2:6
- 17 Proverbs 13:22; Proverbs 28:8; Ecclesiastes 2:26
- 18 Job 8:14–15; Isaiah 1:8; Isaiah 51:8; Isaiah 38:12; Lamentations 2:6
- 19 Job 24:24; Psalm 58:9; Psalm 73:19–20; Jeremiah 8:2; Matthew 23:37
- 20 Job 15:21; Job 18:11; 2 Kings 19:35; Exodus 12:29; Job 21:18
- 21 Psalm 11:6; Psalm 83:15; Job 7:10; Job 21:18; Psalm 58:9
- 22 2 Peter 2:4–5; Ezekiel 24:14; Job 11:20; Ezekiel 5:11; Job 20:24
- 23 Lamentations 2:15; 1 Kings 9:8; Proverbs 11:10; Jeremiah 19:8; Zephaniah 2:15
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