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| 27:1 |
And Job continued his parable and said,
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| 27:2 |
[As] God liveth, who hath taken away my right, and the Almighty, who hath embittered my soul,
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| 27:3 |
All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of +God is in my nostrils,
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| 27:4 |
My lips shall not speak unrighteousness, nor my tongue utter deceit!
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| 27:5 |
Be it far from me that I should justify you; till I die I will not remove my blamelessness from me.
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| 27:6 |
My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart reproacheth [me] not one of my days.
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| 27:7 |
Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous.
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| 27:8 |
For what is the hope of the ungodly, when [God] cutteth him off, when +God taketh away his soul?
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| 27:9 |
Will God hear his cry when distress cometh upon him?
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| 27:10 |
Doth he delight himself in the Almighty? will he at all times call upon +God?
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| 27:11 |
I will teach you concerning the hand of God; what is with the Almighty will I not conceal.
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| 27:12 |
Behold, ye yourselves have all seen [it]; and why are ye thus altogether vain?
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| 27:13 |
This is the portion of the wicked man with God, and the heritage of the violent, which they receive from the Almighty: --
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| 27:14 |
If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword, and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread;
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| 27:15 |
Those that remain of him shall be buried by death, and his widows shall not weep.
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| 27:16 |
Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare clothing as the clay;
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| 27:17 |
He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on; and the innocent shall divide the silver.
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| 27:18 |
He buildeth his house as the moth, and as a booth that a keeper maketh.
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| 27:19 |
He lieth down rich, but will do so no more; he openeth his eyes, and he is not.
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| 27:20 |
Terrors overtake him like waters; a whirlwind stealeth him away in the night.
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| 27:21 |
The east wind carrieth him away and he is gone; and as a storm it hurleth him out of his place.
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| 27:22 |
And [God] shall cast upon him and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.
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| 27:23 |
[Men] shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.
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