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27:1  Job continued to speak. This is what he said:
27:2  ‘Almighty God has not been fair to me. He has caused my life to be very sad. As surely as he lives, I promise this:
27:3  As long as God's Spirit gives me life,
27:4  I will never speak any lies. I will always be honest.
27:5  I will never agree that you, my three friends, are right. Until the day of my death, I will continue to say what I know is right.
27:6  I will never agree that I am guilty. During all of my life, my thoughts do not say that I am doing anything wrong.
27:7  I pray that God will punish my enemies as he punishes all wicked people. They do bad things to me, so they deserve punishment.
27:8  When God chooses to remove wicked people, they cannot hope for any good thing. God will cause them to die.
27:9  When they are in trouble and they pray for help, God will not listen to them.
27:10  People like that are not happy that Almighty God is their friend. They do not like to pray to him all the time.
27:11  I will teach you about the power of Almighty God. I will explain to you what he is thinking.
27:12  You yourselves have all seen what God has done. So you should stop saying all these useless things!
27:13  I will tell you what Almighty God does to wicked people. He punishes cruel people as they deserve.
27:14  Wicked people may have many children, but they will die in war. Their children will never have enough food to eat.
27:15  Illness will kill any children who continue to live. Their widows will not weep when they are dead.
27:16  Wicked people may have lots of money. They may have silver like heaps of sand. They may have more clothes than they could ever wear.
27:17  But one day righteous people will wear those clothes. Honest people will share the silver among themselves.
27:18  The houses that wicked people build are not strong. They are as weak as a spider's web, or a shepherd's hut,
27:19  Their riches quickly disappear. They are rich when they go to sleep, but poor when they wake up.
27:20  Troubles come to them like a flood of water, and they are very afraid. A storm comes in the night to carry them away.
27:21  The east wind picks them up and takes then far away. It removes them from their homes.
27:22  It is a strong wind that hits wicked people and it never stops. It continues to beat them as they try to escape.
27:23  The cruel wind laughs at them as they run away in fear.’