### Young's Literal Translation

Job 26

## The Book of Job

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| # Chapter 27
| And Job addeth to lift up his simile, and saith: --
| God liveth! He turned aside my judgment, And the Mighty -- He made my soul bitter.
| For all the while my breath [is] in me, And the spirit of God in my nostrils.
| My lips do not speak perverseness, And my tongue doth not utter deceit.
| Pollution to me -- if I justify you, Till I expire I turn not aside mine integrity from me.
| On my righteousness I have laid hold, And I do not let it go, My heart doth not reproach me while I live.
| As the wicked is my enemy, And my withstander as the perverse.
| For what [is] the hope of the profane, When He doth cut off? When God doth cast off his soul?
| His cry doth God hear, When distress cometh on him?
| On the Mighty doth he delight himself? Call God at all times?
| I shew you by the hand of God, That which [is] with the Mighty I hide not.
| Lo, ye -- all of you -- have seen, And why [is] this -- ye are altogether vain?
| This [is] the portion of wicked man with God, And the inheritance of terrible ones From the Mighty they receive.
| If his sons multiply -- for them [is] a sword. And his offspring [are] not satisfied [with] bread.
| His remnant in death are buried, And his widows do not weep.
| If he heap up as dust silver, And as clay prepare clothing,
| He prepareth -- and the righteous putteth [it] on, And the silver the innocent doth apportion.
| He hath built as a moth his house, And as a booth a watchman hath made.
| Rich he lieth down, and he is not gathered, His eyes he hath opened, and he is not.
| Overtake him as waters do terrors, By night stolen him away hath a whirlwind.
| Take him up doth an east wind, and he goeth, And it frighteneth him from his place,
| And it casteth at him, and doth not spare, From its hand he diligently fleeth.
| It clappeth at him its hands, And it hisseth at him from his place.

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