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27:1  Job said:
27:2  I am desperate because God All-Powerful refuses to do what is right. As surely as God lives,
27:3  and while he gives me breath,
27:4  I will tell only the truth.
27:5  Until the day I die, I will refuse to do wrong by saying you are right,
27:6  because each day my conscience agrees that I am innocent.
27:7  I pray that my enemies will suffer no less than the wicked.
27:8  Such people are hopeless, and God All-Powerful will cut them down,
27:9  without listening when they beg for mercy.
27:10  And that is what God should do, because they don't like him or ever pray.
27:11  Now I will explain in detail what God All-Powerful does.
27:12  All of you have seen these things for yourselves. So you have no excuse.
27:13  Here is how God All-Powerful treats those who are wicked and brutal.
27:14  They may have many children, but most of them will go hungry or suffer a violent death.
27:15  Others will die of disease, and their widows won't be able to weep.
27:16  The wicked may collect riches and clothes in abundance as easily as clay.
27:17  But God's people will wear clothes taken from them and divide up their riches.
27:18  No homes built by the wicked will outlast a cocoon or a shack.
27:19  Those sinners may go to bed rich, but they will wake up poor.
27:20  Terror will strike at night like a flood or a storm.
27:21  Then a scorching wind will sweep them away
27:22  without showing mercy, as they try to escape.
27:23  At last, the wind will celebrate because they are gone.