Job 27 - Easy To Read Version

¹ Then Job continued telling his story. Job said,\par

² “Truly, God lives.\par And just as truly as God lives,\par He has truly been unfair with me.\par God All-Powerful made my life bitter.\par

³ But as long as life is in me\par and God’s breath of life is in my nose,\par

⁴ then my lips will not speak evil things,\par and my tongue will never tell a lie.\par

⁵ I will never admit that you men are right.\par I will continue saying I am innocent\par until the day I die.\par

⁶ I will hold tightly\par to the right things I did.\par I will never stop living right.\par My conscience will never bother me\par as long as I live.\par

⁷ “People have stood against me.\par I hope my enemies are punished\par like bad men should be punished.\par

⁸ If a person does not care about God,\par then there is no hope for that person\par when he dies.\par That person has no hope\par when God takes his life away.\par

⁹ That evil person will have troubles,\par and he will cry to God for help.\par But God won’t listen to him!\par

¹⁰ That person should have enjoyed\par \{talking with\} God All-Powerful.\par That person should have prayed to God\par all the time.\par

¹¹ “I will teach you about God’s power.\par I will not hide God All-Powerful’s plans.\par

¹² You have seen God’s power\par with your own eyes.\par So why do you say such useless things?\par

¹³ This is what God planned for evil people.\par This is what cruel people will get\par from God All-Powerful:\par

¹⁴ An evil person might have many children.\par But his children will be killed in war.\par The children of an evil person\par will not have enough to eat.\par

¹⁵ All of his children will die,\par and his widow will not be sad.\par

¹⁶ An evil person might get so much silver\par that it is like dirt to him.\par He might have so many clothes\par that they are like piles of clay.\par

¹⁷ But a good person will get his clothes\par Innocent people will get his silver.\par

¹⁸ An evil man might build a house,\par but it will not last a long time.\par It will be like a spider’s web\par or a watchman’s tent.\par

¹⁹ An evil person might be rich\par when he goes to bed.\par But when he opens his eyes,\par all his riches will be gone.\par

²⁰ He will be scared.\par It will be like a flood,\par like a storm came\par and carried everything away.\par

²¹ The east wind will carry him away,\par and he will be gone.\par The storm will sweep him\par out of his home.\par

²² The evil person might try to run away\par from the power of the storm.\par But the storm will hit him without mercy.\par

²³ Men will clap their hands\par as the evil person runs away.\par They will whistle at that evil person\par