Giobbe 27:3-13

3 finché avrò fiato e il soffio di Dio sarà nelle mie nari,

4 le mie labbra, no, non diranno nulla d’ingiusto, e la mia lingua non proferirà falsità.

5 Lungi da me l’idea di darvi ragione! Fino all’ultimo respiro non mi lascerò togliere la mia integrità.

6 Ho preso a difendere la mia giustizia e non cederò; il cuore non mi rimprovera uno solo de’ miei giorni.

7 Sia trattato da malvagio il mio nemico e da perverso chi si leva contro di me!

8 Quale speranza rimane mai all’empio quando Iddio gli toglie, gli rapisce l’anima?

9 Iddio presterà egli orecchio al grido di lui, quando gli verrà sopra la distretta?

10 Potrà egli prendere il suo diletto nell’Onnipotente? invocare Iddio in ogni tempo?

11 Io vi mostrerò il modo d’agire di Dio, non vi nasconderò i disegni dell’Onnipotente.

12 Ma queste cose voi tutti le avete osservate e perché dunque vi perdete in vani discorsi?

13 Ecco la parte che Dio riserba all’empio, l’eredità che l’uomo violento riceve dall’Onnipotente.

Giobbe 27:3-13 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JOB 27

Though Job's friends were become silent, and dropped the controversy with him, he still continued his discourse in this and the four following chapters; in which he asserts his integrity; illustrates and confirms his former sentiments; gives further proof of his knowledge of things, natural and divine; takes notice of his former state of prosperity, and of his present distresses and afflictions, which came upon him, notwithstanding his piety, humanity, and beneficence, and his freedom from the grosser acts of sin, both with respect to God and men, all which he enlarges upon. In this chapter he gives his word and oath for it, that he would never belie himself, and own that he was an hypocrite, when he was not, but would continue to assert his integrity, and the righteousness of his cause, as long as he lived, Job 27:1-6; for to be an hypocrite, and to attempt to conceal his hypocrisy, would be of no advantage to him, either in life, or in death, Job 27:7-10; and was this his character and case, upon their principles, he could expect no other than to be a miserable man, as wicked men are, who have their blessings turned into curses, or taken away from them, and they removed out of the world in the most awful and terrible manner, and under manifest tokens of the wrath and displeasure of God, Job 27:11-23.