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| 27:1 |
And Job continued his discourse:
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| 27:2 |
"As surely as God lives, who has denied me justice, the Almighty, who has made me taste bitterness of soul,
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| 27:3 |
as long as I have life within me, the breath of God in my nostrils,
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| 27:4 |
my lips will not speak wickedness, and my tongue will utter no deceit.
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| 27:5 |
I will never admit you are in the right; till I die, I will not deny my integrity.
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| 27:6 |
I will maintain my righteousness and never let go of it; my conscience will not reproach me as long as I live.
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| 27:7 |
"May my enemies be like the wicked, my adversaries like the unjust!
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| 27:8 |
For what hope has the godless when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?
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| 27:9 |
Does God listen to his cry when distress comes upon him?
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| 27:10 |
Will he find delight in the Almighty? Will he call upon God at all times?
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| 27:11 |
"I will teach you about the power of God; the ways of the Almighty I will not conceal.
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| 27:12 |
You have all seen this yourselves. Why then this meaningless talk?
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| 27:13 |
"Here is the fate God allots to the wicked, the heritage a ruthless man receives from the Almighty:
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| 27:14 |
However many his children, their fate is the sword; his offspring will never have enough to eat.
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| 27:15 |
The plague will bury those who survive him, and their widows will not weep for them.
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| 27:16 |
Though he heaps up silver like dust and clothes like piles of clay,
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| 27:17 |
what he lays up the righteous will wear, and the innocent will divide his silver.
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| 27:18 |
The house he builds is like a moth's cocoon, like a hut made by a watchman.
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| 27:19 |
He lies down wealthy, but will do so no more; when he opens his eyes, all is gone.
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| 27:20 |
Terrors overtake him like a flood; a tempest snatches him away in the night.
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| 27:21 |
The east wind carries him off, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.
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| 27:22 |
It hurls itself against him without mercy as he flees headlong from its power.
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| 27:23 |
It claps its hands in derision and hisses him out of his place.
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