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27:1  Job took up his theme again and said:
27:2  As God lives, who takes away my right, the Almighty, who has made my life bitter,
27:3  So long as I still have life breath in me, the breath of God in my nostrils,
27:4  My lips shall not speak falsehood, nor my tongue utter deceit!
27:5  Far be it from me to account you right; till I die I will not renounce my innocence.
27:6  My justice I maintain and I will not relinquish it; my heart does not reproach me for any of my days.
27:7  Let my enemy be as the wicked and my adversary as the unjust!
27:8  For what hope has the impious when he is cut off, when God requires his life?
27:9  Will God then listen to his cry when distress comes upon him,
27:10  If he delights in the Almighty and calls upon God constantly?
27:11  I will teach you what is in God’s hand, and the way of the Almighty I will not conceal.
27:12  Look, you yourselves have all seen it; why do you spend yourselves in empty words!
27:13  This is the portion of the wicked with God, the heritage oppressors receive from the Almighty:
27:14  Though his children be many, the sword awaits them. His descendants shall want for bread.
27:15  His survivors shall be buried in death; their widows shall not weep.
27:16  Though he heap up silver like dust and store away mounds of clothing,
27:17  What he has stored the righteous shall wear, and the innocent shall divide the silver.
27:18  He builds his house as of cobwebs, or like a booth put up by a watchman.
27:19  He lies down a rich man, one last time; he opens his eyes—nothing is there.
27:20  Terrors flood over him like water, at night the tempest carries him off.
27:21  The east wind seizes him and he is gone; it sweeps him from his place;
27:22  It hurls itself at him without pity, as he tries to flee from its power.
27:23  It claps its hands at him, and whistles at him from its place.