{"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/ylt/job/27","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-17T10:27:18.722Z"},"reference":{"translation":"YLT","book":"Job","bookSlug":"job","chapter":27,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":26,"nextChapter":28,"totalChapters":42,"totalVerses":23},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"And Job addeth to lift up his simile, and saith: — "},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"God liveth! He turned aside my judgment, And the Mighty — He made my soul bitter."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"For all the while my breath is in me, And the spirit of God in my nostrils."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"My lips do not speak perverseness, And my tongue doth not utter deceit."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Pollution to me — if I justify you, Till I expire I turn not aside mine integrity from me."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"On my righteousness I have laid hold, And I do not let it go, My heart doth not reproach me while I live."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"As the wicked is my enemy, And my withstander as the perverse."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"For what is the hope of the profane, When He doth cut off? When God doth cast off his soul?"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"His cry doth God hear, When distress cometh on him?"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"On the Mighty doth he delight himself? Call God at all times?"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"I shew you by the hand of God, That which is with the Mighty I hide not."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Lo, ye — all of you — have seen, And why is this — ye are altogether vain?"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"This is the portion of wicked man with God, And the inheritance of terrible ones From the Mighty they receive."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"If his sons multiply — for them is a sword. And his offspring are not satisfied with bread."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"His remnant in death are buried, And his widows do not weep."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"If he heap up as dust silver, And as clay prepare clothing,"},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"He prepareth — and the righteous putteth it on, And the silver the innocent doth apportion."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"He hath built as a moth his house, And as a booth a watchman hath made."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Rich he lieth down, and he is not gathered, His eyes he hath opened, and he is not."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Overtake him as waters do terrors, By night stolen him away hath a whirlwind."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Take him up doth an east wind, and he goeth, And it frighteneth him from his place,"},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"And it casteth at him, and doth not spare, From its hand he diligently fleeth."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"It clappeth at him its hands, And it hisseth at him from his place."}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 27 (YLT)","markdown":"[Job 27](https://primebible.com/ylt/job/27)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* YLT. https://primebible.com/ylt/job/27 (accessed 2026-06-17)."}}