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27:1  Job then continued his discourse:
27:2  “I swear by the living God who has denied me justice, and by the Almighty who has filled my soul with bitterness,
27:3  that as long as I have a shred of life remaining in me and the breath of God is in my nostrils,
27:4  never will my lips utter falsehood, nor will my tongue be guilty of deceit.
27:5  “Never will I concede that you are right; until death I will not renounce my innocence.
27:6  I maintain the rightness of my cause; my conscience does not reproach me for the life I have led.
27:7  “Let my enemy meet the fate of the wicked and my adversary face the doom of the unjust.
27:8  For what hope does a godless man have when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?
27:9  Will God pay heed to his cry when disaster comes upon him?
27:10  Will he then take delight in the Almighty and call upon him at all times?
27:11  “I will teach you about the power of God; I will not conceal the designs of the Almighty.
27:12  Yet all of you have seen it yourselves; how then can you waste your time with idle words?”
27:13  “This is the fate that God allots for the wicked man, the inheritance that the violent receive from the Almighty.
27:14  Though numerous, his children are destined for the sword, and his descendants will never have enough to eat.
27:15  His survivors will perish as a result of pestilence, and their widows will not mourn for them.
27:16  “Even though he amasses silver like dust and piles up clothes like clay,
27:17  it is the righteous who will wear those clothes and the innocent who will divide the silver.
27:18  The house he builds is as flimsy as a cobweb or like a shack that shelters the watchman.
27:19  He goes to bed a man of wealth for the final time; he opens his eyes to find that it is all gone.
27:20  “By day terror overtakes him, and at night a whirlwind carries him away.
27:21  An east wind seizes him and he is gone; it sweeps him far away from his home.
27:22  It assails him without pity, and he flees from its force that menaces him.
27:23  His downfall is acclaimed with joy, and he is derided wherever he may be.