Job 27

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¹ Job also added, taking up his parable, and said:
² As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment, and the Almighty, who hath brought my soul to bitterness,	² As God lives, who withholds my deserts, the Almighty, who has made bitter my soul,
³ As long as breath remaineth in me, and the spirit of God in my nostrils,	³ So long as I still have life in me and the breath of God is in my nostrils,
⁴ My lips shall not speak iniquity, neither shall my tongue contrive lying.	⁴ My lips shall not speak falsehood, nor my tongue utter deceit!
⁵ God forbid that I should judge you to be just: till I die I will not depart from my innocence.	⁵ Far be it from me to account you right; till I die I will not renounce my innocence.
⁶ My justification, which I have begun to hold, I will not forsake: for my heart doth not reprehend me in all my life.	⁶ My justice I maintain and I will not relinquish it; my heart does not reproach me for any of my days.
⁷ Let my enemy be as the ungodly, and my adversary as the wicked one.	⁷ Let my enemy be as the wicked and my adversary as the unjust!
⁸ For what is the hope of the hypocrite if through covetousness he take by violence, and God deliver not his soul?	⁸ For what can the impious man expect when he is cut off, when God requires his life?
⁹ Will God hear his cry, when distress shall come upon him?	⁹ Will God then attend to his cry when calamity comes upon him?
¹⁰ Or can he delight himself in the Almighty, and call upon God at all times?	¹⁰ Will he then delight in the Almighty and call upon him constantly?
¹¹ I will teach you by the hand of God, what the Almighty hath, and I will not conceal it.	¹¹ I will teach you the manner of God's dealings, and the way of the Almighty I will not conceal.
¹² Behold you all know it, and why do you speak vain things without cause?	¹² Behold, you yourselves have all seen it; why then do you spend yourselves in idle words!
¹³ This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the inheritance of the violent, which they shall receive of the Almighty.	¹³ This is the portion of a wicked man from God, the inheritance an oppressor receives from the Almighty:
¹⁴ If his sons be multiplied, they shall be for the sword, and his grandsons shall not be filled with bread.	¹⁴ Though his children be many, the sword is their destiny. His offspring shall not be filled with bread.
¹⁵ They that shall remain of him, shall be buried in death, and his widows shall not weep.	¹⁵ His survivors, when they die, shall have no burial, and their widows shall not be mourned.
¹⁶ If he shall heap together silver as earth, and prepare raiment as clay,	¹⁶ Though he heap up silver like dust and store away mounds of clothing,
¹⁷ He shall prepare indeed, but the just man shall be clothed with it: and the innocent shall divide the silver.	¹⁷ What he has stored the just man shall wear, and the innocent shall divide the silver.
¹⁸ He hath built his house as a moth, and as a keeper he hath made a booth.	¹⁸ He builds his house as of cobwebs, or like a booth put up by the vine-keeper.
¹⁹ The rich man when he shall sleep shall take away nothing with him: he shall open his eyes and find nothing.	¹⁹ He lies down a rich man, one last time; he opens his eyes and nothing remains to him.
²⁰ Poverty like water shall take hold on him, a tempest shall oppress him in the night.	²⁰ Terrors rush upon him by day; at night the tempest carries him off.
²¹ A burning wind shall take him up, and carry him away, and as a whirlwind shall snatch him from his place.	²¹ The storm wind seizes him and he disappears; it sweeps him out of his place.
²² And he shall cast upon him, and shall not spare: out of his hand he would willingly flee.
²³ He shall clasp his hands upon him, and shall hiss at him, beholding his place.

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