Job 27

1Job again took up his parable, and said,Cross-references: Num 23:7 · Num 24:3 · Num 24:15 · Job 29:1 · Ps 49:4 · Ps 78:2 · +1 more

2“As God lives, who has taken away my right, the Almighty, who has made my soul bitterCross-references: Num 14:21 · Ruth 1:20 · Ruth 3:13 · 1Sam 14:39 · 1Sam 14:45 · 1Sam 20:21 · +14 more

3(for the length of my life is still in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils);Cross-references: Gen 2:7 · Job 32:8 · Job 33:4 · Isa 2:22 · Acts 17:25

4surely my lips will not speak unrighteousness, neither will my tongue utter deceit.Cross-references: Job 6:28 · Job 13:7 · Job 34:6 · John 8:55 · 2Cor 11:10

5Far be it from me that I should justify you. Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.Cross-references: Deut 25:1 · Job 2:9 · Job 13:15 · Job 29:14 · Job 32:3 · Job 42:7 · +3 more

6I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart will not reproach me so long as I live.Cross-references: Job 2:3 · Ps 18:20 · Prov 4:13 · Acts 24:16 · 2Cor 12:11 · 1John 3:20

7“Let my enemy be as the wicked. Let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous.Cross-references: 1Sam 25:26 · 2Sam 18:32 · Dan 4:19

8For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?Cross-references: Job 8:13 · Job 11:20 · Job 13:16 · Job 15:34 · Job 20:5 · Job 31:3 · +8 more

9Will God hear his cry when trouble comes on him?Cross-references: Job 35:12 · Ps 18:41 · Ps 66:18 · Ps 109:7 · Prov 1:28 · Prov 28:9 · +10 more

10Will he delight himself in the Almighty, and call on God at all times?Cross-references: Job 22:26 · Ps 37:4 · Ps 43:4 · Ps 78:34 · Hab 3:18 · Matt 13:21 · +4 more

11I will teach you about the hand of God. I will not conceal that which is with the Almighty.Cross-references: Deut 4:5 · Job 4:3 · Job 6:10 · Job 32:8 · Ps 71:17 · Isa 8:11 · +1 more

12Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves; why then have you become altogether vain?Cross-references: Job 6:25 · Job 13:4 · Job 16:3 · Job 17:2 · Job 19:2 · Job 21:3 · +4 more

13“This is the portion of a wicked man with God, the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty.Cross-references: Job 15:20 · Job 20:19 · Job 31:3 · Ps 11:6 · Ps 12:5 · Prov 22:22 · +5 more

14If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword. His offspring will not be satisfied with bread.Cross-references: Deut 28:32 · Deut 28:41 · 1Sam 2:5 · 2Ki 9:7 · 2Ki 10:6 · Esth 5:11 · +7 more

15Those who remain of him will be buried in death. His widows will make no lamentation.Cross-references: 1Ki 14:10 · 1Ki 16:3 · 1Ki 21:21 · Ps 78:64 · Jer 22:18

16Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare clothing as the clay;Cross-references: 1Ki 10:27 · Job 22:24 · Hab 2:6 · Zech 9:3 · Matt 6:19 · James 5:2

17he may prepare it, but the just will put it on, and the innocent will divide the silver.Cross-references: Prov 13:22 · Prov 28:8 · Eccl 2:26

18He builds his house as the moth, as a booth which the watchman makes.Cross-references: Job 8:14 · Isa 1:8 · Isa 38:12 · Isa 51:8 · Lam 2:6

19He lies down rich, but he will not do so again. He opens his eyes, and he is not.Cross-references: Gen 49:10 · Job 7:8 · Job 8:22 · Job 14:10 · Job 14:12 · Job 20:7 · +9 more

20Terrors overtake him like waters. A storm steals him away in the night.Cross-references: Ex 12:29 · 2Ki 19:35 · Job 15:21 · Job 18:11 · Job 20:8 · Job 20:23 · +8 more

21The east wind carries him away, and he departs. It sweeps him out of his place.Cross-references: Ex 9:23 · Job 7:10 · Job 21:18 · Ps 11:6 · Ps 58:9 · Ps 83:15 · +4 more

22For it hurls at him, and does not spare, as he flees away from his hand.Cross-references: Ex 9:14 · Ex 14:25 · Deut 29:20 · Deut 32:23 · Josh 10:11 · Judg 4:17 · +11 more

23Men will clap their hands at him, and will hiss him out of his place.Cross-references: 1Ki 9:8 · Esth 9:22 · Job 18:18 · Prov 11:10 · Jer 19:8 · Lam 2:15 · +3 more