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27:1  Job’s final defense:
27:2  “I vow by the living God, who has taken away my rights, even the Almighty God who has embittered my soul,
27:3  that as long as I live, while I have breath from God,
27:4  my lips shall speak no evil, my tongue shall speak no lies.
27:5  I will never, never agree that you are right; until I die I will vow my innocence.
27:6  I am not a sinner—I repeat it again and again. My conscience is clear for as long as I live.
27:7  Those who declare otherwise are my wicked enemies. They are evil men.
27:8  “But what hope has the godless when God cuts him off and takes away his life?
27:9  Will God listen to his cry when trouble comes upon him?
27:10  For he does not delight himself in the Almighty or pay any attention to God except in times of crisis.
27:11  “I will teach you about God—
27:12  but really, I don’t need to, for you yourselves know as much about him as I do; yet you are saying all these useless things to me.
27:13  “This is the fate awaiting the wicked from the hand of the Almighty:
27:14  If he has a multitude of children, it is so that they will die in war or starve to death.
27:15  Those who survive shall be brought down to the grave by disease and plague, with no one to mourn them, not even their wives.
27:16  “The evil man may accumulate money like dust, with closets jammed full of clothing—
27:17  yes, he may order them made by his tailor, but the innocent shall wear that clothing and shall divide his silver among them.
27:18  Every house built by the wicked is as fragile as a spider web, as full of cracks as a leafy booth!
27:19  “He goes to bed rich but wakes up to find that all his wealth is gone.
27:20  Terror overwhelms him, and he is blown away in the storms of the night.
27:21  The east wind carries him away, and he is gone. It sweeps him into eternity.
27:22  For God shall hurl at him unsparingly. He longs to flee from God.
27:23  Everyone will cheer at his death and boo him into eternity.