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27:1  Moreover Job continued his discourse:
27:2  “As God lives, who has taken away my judgment, and the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter,
27:3  all the while my spirit is in me, and the breath of God is in my nostrils,
27:4  my lips will not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.
27:5  God forbid that I should justify you. Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.
27:6  My righteousness I hold fast and will not let it go; my heart will not reproach me as long as I live.
27:7  “Let my enemy be like the wicked, and he who rises up against me like the unrighteous.
27:8  For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he may gain much, when God takes away his soul?
27:9  Will God hear his cry when trouble comes upon him?
27:10  Will he delight himself in the Almighty? Will he always call upon God?
27:11  “I will teach you about the hand of God; what is with the Almighty I will not conceal.
27:12  Look, all of you have seen it; why then have you become altogether vain?
27:13  “This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the inheritance that oppressors receive from the Almighty:
27:14  If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword, and his offspring will not be satisfied with bread.
27:15  Those who survive him will be buried in death, and their widows will not weep.
27:16  Though he heaps up silver like the dust and piles up clothing like the clay—
27:17  he may pile it up, but the just will wear it, and the innocent will divide the silver.
27:18  He builds his house like a moth, and like a booth that the watchman makes.
27:19  The rich man will lie down, but he will not be gathered; he opens his eyes, and he is not.
27:20  Terrors overtake him like floodwaters; a tempest steals him away in the night.
27:21  The east wind carries him away, and he departs; it sweeps him out of his place.
27:22  For God will cast it upon him and not spare; he would flee from its power.
27:23  Men will clap their hands at him and will hiss him out of his place.