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Job again took up his parable, and said,
{27:2} "As God lives, who has taken away my right, the Almighty, who has made my soul
bitter.
{27:3} (For the length of my life is still in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils);
{27:4} surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, neither shall my tongue utter deceit.
{27:5} Far be it from me that I should justify you. Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.
{27:6} I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. My
heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.
{27:7} "Let my enemy be as the wicked. Let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous.
{27:8} For what is the
hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?
{27:9} Will God hear his cry when trouble comes on him?
{27:10} Will he delight himself in the Almighty, and call on God at all times?
{27:11} I will teach you about the hand of God. That which is with the Almighty will I not conceal.
{27:12} Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves; why then have you become altogether vain?
{27:13} "This is the portion of a wicked man with God, the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty.
{27:14} If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword. His offspring shall not be satisfied with
bread.
{27:15} Those who remain of him shall be buried in
death. His widows shall make no lamentation.
{27:16} Though he heap up silver as the
dust, and prepare clothing as the
clay;
{27:17} he may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.
{27:18} He builds his house as the moth, as a booth which the watchman makes.
{27:19} He lies down rich, but he shall not do so again. He opens his eyes, and he is not.
{27:20} Terrors overtake him like waters. A storm steals him away in the night.
{27:21} The
east wind carries him away, and he departs. It sweeps him out of his place.
{27:22} For it hurls at him, and does not spare, as he flees away from his hand.
{27:23} Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall
hiss him out of his place.
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