📖 Job 27
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A Protest of Innocence And Job took up his discourse again:
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“As surely as God lives, who has denied me justice, the Almighty, who has made my life bitter–
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for while my spirit is still in me, and the breath from God is in my nostrils,
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my lips will not speak wickedness, and my tongue will whisper no deceit.
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I will never declare that you three are in the right; until I die, I will not set aside my integrity!
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I will maintain my righteousness and never let it go; my conscience will not reproach me for as long as I live.
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The Condition of the Wicked“May my enemy be like the wicked, my adversary like the unrighteous.
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For what hope does the godless have when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?
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Does God listen to his cry when distress overtakes him?
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Will he find delight in the Almighty? Will he call out to God at all times?
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I will teach you about the power of God; What is on the Almighty’s mind I will not conceal.
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If you yourselves have all seen this, Why in the world do you continue this meaningless talk?
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This is the portion of the wicked man allotted by God, the inheritance that evildoers receive from the Almighty.
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If his children increase– it is for the sword! His offspring never have enough to eat.
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Those who survive him are buried by the plague, and their widows do not mourn for them.
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If he piles up silver like dust and stores up clothing like mounds of clay,
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what he stores up a righteous man will wear, and an innocent man will inherit his silver.
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The house he builds is as fragile as a moth’s cocoon, like a hut that a watchman has made.
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He goes to bed wealthy, but will do so no more. When he opens his eyes, it is all gone.
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Terrors overwhelm him like a flood; at night a whirlwind carries him off.
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The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.
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It hurls itself against him without pity as he flees headlong from its power.
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It claps its hands at him in derision and hisses him away from his place.