{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/web/job/27","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-10T00:41:43.586Z"},"reference":{"translation":"WEB","book":"Job","bookSlug":"job","chapter":27,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":26,"nextChapter":28,"totalChapters":42,"totalVerses":23},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Job again took up his parable, and said,"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"|As God lives, who has taken away my right, the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"(For the length of my life is still in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils);"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, neither shall my tongue utter deceit."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Far be it from me that I should justify you. Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart shall not reproach me so long as I live."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"|Let my enemy be as the wicked. Let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Will God hear his cry when trouble comes on him?"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Will he delight himself in the Almighty, and call on God at all times?"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"I will teach you about the hand of God. That which is with the Almighty will I not conceal."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves; why then have you become altogether vain?"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"|This is the portion of a wicked man with God, the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword. His offspring shall not be satisfied with bread."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Those who remain of him shall be buried in death. His widows shall make no lamentation."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare clothing as the clay;"},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"he may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"He builds his house as the moth, as a booth which the watchman makes."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"He lies down rich, but he shall not do so again. He opens his eyes, and he is not."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Terrors overtake him like waters. A storm steals him away in the night."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"The east wind carries him away, and he departs. It sweeps him out of his place."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"For it hurls at him, and does not spare, as he flees away from his hand."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place."}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 27 (WEB)","markdown":"[Job 27](https://primebible.com/web/job/27)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* WEB. https://primebible.com/web/job/27 (accessed 2026-06-10)."}}