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27:1  3 The constancy and perfectness of Job. 13 The reward of the wicked and of the tyrants. Moreover Job proceeded and continued his parable, saying,
27:2  The living God hath taken away my judgment: for the Almighty hath put my soul in bitterness.
27:3  Yet so long as my breath is in me, and the Spirit of God in my nostrils,
27:4  My lips surely shall speak no wickedness, and my tongue shall utter no deceit.
27:5  God forbid, that I should justify you: until I die, I will never take away mine innocency from myself.
27:6  I will keep my righteousness, and will not forsake it: mine heart shall not reprove me of my days.
27:7  Mine enemy shall be as the wicked, and he that riseth against me, as the unrighteous.
27:8  For what hope hath the hypocrite when he hath heaped up riches, if God take away his soul?
27:9  Will God hear his cry, when trouble cometh upon him?
27:10  Will he set his delight on the Almighty? will he call upon God at all times?
27:11  I will teach you what is in the hand of God, and I will not conceal that which is with the Almighty.
27:12  Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it: why then do you thus vanish vanity?
27:13  This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of tyrants, which they shall receive of the Almighty.
27:14  If his children be in great number, the sword shall destroy them, and his posterity shall not be satisfied with bread.
27:15  His remnant shall be buried in death, and his widows shall not weep.
27:16  Though he should heap up silver as the dust, and prepare 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 buildeth his house as the moth, and as a lodge that the watchman maketh.
27:19  When the rich man sleepeth, he shall not be gathered to his fathers: they opened their eyes, and he was gone.
27:20  Terrors shall take him as waters, and a tempest shall carry him away by night.
27:21  The East wind shall take him away, and he shall depart: and it shall hurl him out of his place.
27:22  And God shall cast upon him and not spare, though he would fain flee out of his hand.
27:23  Every man shall clap their hands at him, and hiss at him out of their place.