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27:1  And Job continued speaking:
27:2  “As surely as God lives, he has taken away my rights. God All-Powerful has made me unhappy.
27:3  As long as I am alive and God’s breath of life is in my nose,
27:4  My lips will not speak evil. And my tongue will not tell a lie.
27:5  I will never agree you are right. Until I die, I will never stop saying I was innocent.
27:6  I will hold tightly to the right things I said. My sense of right and wrong does not bother me at all.
27:7  “Let my enemies be like evil people. Let them be like those who are not fair!
27:8  What hope does a wicked person have when he dies? He has no hope when God takes his life away.
27:9  God will not listen to his cry when trouble comes to him.
27:10  He will not find joy in God All-Powerful, even though he calls out to God all the time.
27:11  “I will teach you about the power of God. I will not hide the ways of God All-Powerful.
27:12  You have all seen this yourselves. So why are we having all this talk that means nothing?
27:13  “Here is what God has planned for evil people. This is what cruel people will get from God All-Powerful:
27:14  They may have many children, but the sword will kill them. The children who are left will never have enough to eat.
27:15  Then they will die and be buried. And the widows will not even cry for them.
27:16  The evil person may heap up silver like piles of dirt. He may have so many clothes they are like piles of clay.
27:17  But good people will wear what the evil person has gathered. And those who are not guilty of wrong will divide up his silver.
27:18  The house the evil person builds is like a spider’s web. It is like a hut that a guard builds.
27:19  The evil person is rich when he goes to bed, but he is rich for the last time. When he opens his eyes, everything is gone.
27:20  Fears come over him like a flood. A storm snatches him away in the night.
27:21  The east wind will carry him away, and then he is gone. It sweeps him out of his place.
27:22  The wind will hit the evil person without mercy as he tries to run away from its power.
27:23  It will be as if the wind is clapping its hands at him. It will whistle at him as he runs from his place.