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27:1  Moreover, Job continued his parable and said,
27:2  As God lives, who has taken away my rights; and the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter,
27:3  that all the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils,
27:4  my lips shall not speak iniquity, nor my tongue utter deceit.
27:5  In no wise should I justify you; until I die I will not remove 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 and my adversary as the unrighteous.
27:8  For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he has stolen much, when God takes away his soul?
27:9  Will God hear his cry when the tribulation comes upon him?
27:10  Will he delight himself in the Almighty? Will he always call upon God?
27:11  I will teach you what there is in the hand of God; I will not conceal that which is regarding the Almighty.
27:12  Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye so completely vain?
27:13  This is the portion of a wicked man with God and the heritage of the violent, which they shall receive of the Almighty.
27:14  If their sons are multiplied, it is for the sword; and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
27:15  Those that remain of him shall be buried in death; and their widows shall not weep.
27:16  Though he heaps up silver as the dust and prepares raiment 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 built his house as a moth and as a booth that the keeper makes.
27:19  The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered; he shall open his eyes and not see anyone.
27:20  Terrors shall take hold on him as waters; a whirlwind shall carry him away in the night.
27:21  The east wind shall take him away, and he shall depart; the storm shall catch him up out of his place.
27:22  For God shall cast down on him and not spare; he would attempt to flee out of his hand.
27:23  Men shall clap their hands at him, and from his place they shall hiss at him.