Hiob 27:1-10

1 Und Hiob fuhr fort und hob an seine Sprüche und sprach:

2 So wahr Gott lebt, der mir mein Recht weigert, und der Allmächtige, der meine Seele betrübt;

3 solange mein Odem in mir ist und der Hauch von Gott in meiner Nase ist:

4 meine Lippen sollen nichts Unrechtes reden, und meine Zunge soll keinen Betrug sagen.

5 Das sei ferne von mir, daß ich euch recht gebe; bis daß mein Ende kommt, will ich nicht weichen von meiner Unschuld.

6 Von meiner Gerechtigkeit, die ich habe, will ich nicht lassen; mein Gewissen beißt mich nicht meines ganzen Lebens halben.

7 Aber mein Feind müsse erfunden werden als ein Gottloser, und der sich wider mich auflehnt, als ein Ungerechter.

8 Denn was ist die Hoffnung des Heuchlers, wenn Gott ein Ende mit ihm macht und seine Seele hinreißt?

9 Meinst du das Gott sein Schreien hören wird, wenn die Angst über ihn kommt?

10 Oder kann er an dem Allmächtigen seine Lust haben und Gott allezeit anrufen?

Hiob 27:1-10 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.