Job 27

Job’s Final Word to His Friends

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.”

Cross References 44

  • 1. Job 29:1
  • 2. S Job 6:29; S Job 9:24; Isaiah 45:9; Isaiah 49:4,14; Job 34:5
  • 3. Job 23:16
  • 4. S 1 Samuel 1:10; S Job 7:19; S Job 10:1; Job 9:18
  • 5. S Genesis 2:7; Job 32:8; Job 33:4; Job 34:14; S Psalms 144:4
  • 6. S Job 6:28; S Job 12:16; S Job 16:17
  • 7. S Job 2:9; S Job 10:7; S Job 32:2; Job 13:15
  • 8. Job 29:14; Psalms 119:121; Psalms 132:9; Isaiah 59:17; Isaiah 61:10
  • 9. S Acts 23:1; Romans 2:15
  • 10. S Job 2:3; S Job 10:7; S Job 23:10; S Job 34:17
  • 11. S Job 8:22
  • 12. Job 31:35
  • 13. S Job 8:13
  • 14. S Numbers 16:22; S Job 8:22; S Job 11:20; Luke 12:20
  • 15. S Deuteronomy 1:45; S 1 Samuel 8:18; S Job 15:31; Job 35:12; Proverbs 1:28; Isaiah 1:15; Jeremiah 14:12; Micah 3:4
  • 16. S Job 22:26
  • 17. Job 36:23
  • 18. ver 13
  • 19. S Job 15:20; Job 16:19; S Job 20:29
  • 20. S Job 5:4
  • 21. Deuteronomy 28:41; S Job 15:22; S Lamentations 2:22; Hosea 9:13
  • 22. S Job 4:11; Job 20:10
  • 23. Psalms 78:64
  • 24. S 1 Kings 10:27
  • 25. Zechariah 9:3
  • 26. Psalms 39:6; Psalms 49:10; Ecclesiastes 2:26
  • 27. S Job 7:8; Proverbs 13:22; Proverbs 28:8; Ecclesiastes 2:26
  • 28. Exodus 3:22; S Job 3:15
  • 29. S Job 8:22
  • 30. S Job 8:14
  • 31. Isaiah 1:8; Isaiah 24:20
  • 32. S Job 3:13; S Job 7:8
  • 33. S Job 14:20
  • 34. S Job 6:4
  • 35. S Job 15:21
  • 36. S Job 20:8
  • 37. Job 38:24; Jeremiah 13:24; Jeremiah 22:22
  • 38. Job 30:22
  • 39. S Job 7:10; Job 21:18
  • 40. Jeremiah 13:14; Ezekiel 5:11; Ezekiel 24:14
  • 41. 2 Kings 7:15
  • 42. S Job 11:20
  • 43. S Numbers 24:10; Nahum 3:19
  • 44. S Job 7:10; Job 18:18

Job 27 Commentaries

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