27:1   Job said:

27:2   I am desperate because God All-Powerful refuses to do what is right. As surely as God lives,

27:3   and while he gives me breath,

27:4   I will tell only the truth.

27:5   Until the day I die, I will refuse to do wrong by saying you are right,

27:6   because each day my conscience agrees that I am innocent.

27:7   I pray that my enemies will suffer no less than the wicked.

27:8   Such people are hopeless, and God All-Powerful will cut them down,

27:9   without listening when they beg for mercy.

27:10   And that is what God should do, because they don't like him or ever pray.

27:11   Now I will explain in detail what God All-Powerful does.

27:12   All of you have seen these things for yourselves. So you have no excuse.

27:13   Here is how God All-Powerful treats those who are wicked and brutal.

27:14   They may have many children, but most of them will go hungry or suffer a violent death.

27:15   Others will die of disease, and their widows won't be able to weep.

27:16   The wicked may collect riches and clothes in abundance as easily as clay.

27:17   But God's people will wear clothes taken from them and divide up their riches.

27:18   No homes built by the wicked will outlast a cocoon or a shack.

27:19   Those sinners may go to bed rich, but they will wake up poor.

27:20   Terror will strike at night like a flood or a storm.

27:21   Then a scorching wind will sweep them away

27:22   without showing mercy, as they try to escape.

27:23   At last, the wind will celebrate because they are gone.