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