Ch 27 / 42~2 min
Iyov

Chapter 27

Integrity Held Fast Through Every Trial

Job's maintenance of his integrity despite everything foreshadows Yeshua, the only truly innocent Sufferer, whose vindication would redeem all unjust suffering.

  1. Job Holds Fast His Integrity

    Despite everything, Job holds fast to his integrity. He will not say he is guilty when he is not.

  2. 1Job again took up his parable, and said,
  3. 2As Elohim lives, who has taken away my right, the El Shaddai, who has made my soul bitter
  4. 3(for the length of my life is still in me, and the spirit of Elohim is in my nostrils);
  5. 4surely my lips will not speak unrighteousness, neither will my tongue utter deceit.
  6. 5Far be it from me that I should justify you. Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.
  7. 6I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart will not reproach me so long as I live.
  8. 7Let my enemy be as the wicked. Let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous.
  9. 8For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when Elohim takes away his life?
  10. 9Will Elohim hear his cry when trouble comes on him?
  11. 10Will he delight himself in the El Shaddai, and call on Elohim at all times?
  12. 11I will teach you about the hand of Elohim. I will not conceal that which is with the El Shaddai.
  13. 12Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves; why then have you become altogether vain?
  14. 13This is the portion of a wicked man with Elohim, the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the El Shaddai.
  15. 14If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword. His offspring will not be satisfied with bread.
  16. 15Those who remain of him will be buried in death. His widows will make no lamentation.
  17. 16Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare clothing as the clay;
  18. 17he may prepare it, but the just will put it on, and the innocent will divide the silver.
  19. 18He builds his house as the moth, as a booth which the watchman makes.
  20. 19He lies down rich, but he will not do so again. He opens his eyes, and he is not.
  21. 20Terrors overtake him like waters. A storm steals him away in the night.
  22. 21The east wind carries him away, and he departs. It sweeps him out of his place.
  23. 22For it hurls at him, and does not spare, as he flees away from his hand.
  24. 23Men will clap their hands at him, and will hiss him out of his place.
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