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27:1  Then Job took up his topic again:
27:2  As God lives, who rejected my legal claim, the Almighty, who made me bitter,
27:3  as long as breath is in me and God’s breath is in my nostrils—
27:4  my lips will utter no wickedness; my tongue will mumble no deceit.
27:5  I will not agree that you are right. Until my dying day, I won’t give up my integrity.
27:6  I will insist on my innocence, never surrendering it; my conscience will never blame me for what I have done.
27:7  Let my enemy be like the wicked, my opposition like the vicious.
27:8  For what hope has the godless when God cuts them off, when he takes them away.
27:9  Will God hear their cries when distress comes to them;
27:10  will they delight in the Almighty, call God at any time?
27:11  I will teach you God’s power, not hide what pertains to the Almighty.
27:12  Look, those of you who recognize this— why then this empty talk?
27:13  This is the wicked’s portion with God, the inheritance that the ruthless receive from the Almighty.
27:14  If their children increase, they belong to the sword; their offspring won’t have enough bread.
27:15  Their survivors will be buried with the dead; their widows won’t weep.
27:16  If they store up silver like dust, amass clothing like clay,
27:17  they may amass, but the righteous will wear it; the innocent will divide the silver.
27:18  They built their houses like nests, like a hut made by a watchman.
27:19  They lie down rich, but no longer; open their eyes, but it’s missing.
27:20  Terrors overtake them like waters; a tempest snatches them by night;
27:21  an east wind lifts them, and they are gone, removes them from their places,
27:22  throws itself on them without mercy; they flee desperately from its force.
27:23  It claps its hands over them, hisses at them from their place.