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27:1  And Job continued his discourse:
27:2  ‘As surely as God lives, who has denied me justice, the Almighty, who has made my life bitter,
27:3  as long as I have life within me, the breath of God in my nostrils,
27:4  my lips will not say anything wicked, and my tongue will not utter lies.
27:5  I will never admit you are in the right; till I die, I will not deny my integrity.
27:6  I will maintain my innocence and never let go of it; my conscience will not reproach me as long as I live.
27:7  ‘May my enemy be like the wicked, my adversary like the unjust!
27:8  For what hope have the godless when they are cut off, when God takes away their life?
27:9  Does God listen to their cry when distress comes upon them?
27:10  Will they find delight in the Almighty? Will they call on God at all times?
27:11  ‘I will teach you about the power of God; the ways of the Almighty I will not conceal.
27:12  You have all seen this yourselves. Why then this meaningless talk?
27:13  ‘Here is the fate God allots to the wicked, the heritage a ruthless man receives from the Almighty:
27:14  However many his children, their fate is the sword; his offspring will never have enough to eat.
27:15  The plague will bury those who survive him, and their widows will not weep for them.
27:16  Though he heaps up silver like dust and clothes like piles of clay,
27:17  what he lays up the righteous will wear, and the innocent will divide his silver.
27:18  The house he builds is like a moth’s cocoon, like a hut made by a watchman.
27:19  He lies down wealthy, but will do so no more; when he opens his eyes, all is gone.
27:20  Terrors overtake him like a flood; a tempest snatches him away in the night.
27:21  The east wind carries him off, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.
27:22  It hurls itself against him without mercy as he flees headlong from its power.
27:23  It claps its hands in derision and hisses him out of his place.’