# Job 27 (New King James Version)
Job Maintains His Integrity

##### Chapter 27
###### 1 Moreover Job continued his discourse, and said:

###### 2 "_As_ God lives, _who_ has taken away my justice,  
And the Almighty, _who_ has made my soul bitter,  

###### 3 As long as my breath _is_ in me,  
And the breath of God in my nostrils,  

###### 4 My lips will not speak wickedness,  
Nor my tongue utter deceit.  

###### 5 Far be it from me  
That I should say you are right;  
Till I die I will not put away my integrity from me.  

###### 6 My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go;  
My heart shall not reproach _me_ as long as I live.

###### 7 "May my enemy be like the wicked,  
And he who rises up against me like the unrighteous.  

###### 8 For what is the hope of the hypocrite,  
Though he may gain _much,_  
If God takes away his life?  

###### 9 Will God hear his cry  
When trouble comes upon him?  

###### 10 Will he delight himself in the Almighty?  
Will he always call on God?

###### 11 "I will teach you about the hand of God;  
What _is_ with the Almighty I will not conceal.  

###### 12 Surely all of you have seen _it;_  
Why then do you behave with complete nonsense?

###### 13 "This is the portion of a wicked man with God,  
And the heritage of oppressors, received from the Almighty:  

###### 14 If his children are multiplied, _it is_ for the sword;  
And his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.  

###### 15 Those who survive him shall be buried in death,  
And their widows shall not weep,  

###### 16 Though he heaps up silver like dust,  
And piles up clothing like clay--  

###### 17 He may pile _it_ up, but the just will wear _it,_  
And the innocent will divide the silver.  

###### 18 He builds his house like a moth,  
Like a booth _which_ a watchman makes.  

###### 19 The rich man will lie down,  
But not be gathered _up;_  
He opens his eyes,  
And he _is_ no more.  

###### 20 Terrors overtake him like a flood;  
A tempest steals him away in the night.  

###### 21 The east wind carries him away, and he is gone;  
It sweeps him out of his place.  

###### 22 It hurls against him and does not spare;  
He flees desperately from its power.  

###### 23 _Men_ shall clap their hands at him,  
And shall hiss him out of his place.