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# Job 27

[1](#verse-1) Job again took up his parable, and said,

[2](#verse-2) “As God lives, who has taken away my right, the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter

[3](#verse-3) (for the length of my life is still in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils);

[4](#verse-4) surely my lips will not speak unrighteousness, neither will my tongue utter deceit.

[5](#verse-5) Far be it from me that I should justify you. Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.

[6](#verse-6) I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart will not reproach me so long as I live.

[7](#verse-7) “Let my enemy be as the wicked. Let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous.

[8](#verse-8) For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?

[9](#verse-9) Will God hear his cry when trouble comes on him?

[10](#verse-10) Will he delight himself in the Almighty, and call on God at all times?

[11](#verse-11) I will teach you about the hand of God. I will not conceal that which is with the Almighty.

[12](#verse-12) Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves; why then have you become altogether vain?

[13](#verse-13) “This is the portion of a wicked man with God, the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty.

[14](#verse-14) If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword. His offspring will not be satisfied with bread.

[15](#verse-15) Those who remain of him will be buried in death. His widows will make no lamentation.

[16](#verse-16) Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare clothing as the clay;

[17](#verse-17) he may prepare it, but the just will put it on, and the innocent will divide the silver.

[18](#verse-18) He builds his house as the moth, as a booth which the watchman makes.

[19](#verse-19) He lies down rich, but he will not do so again. He opens his eyes, and he is not.

[20](#verse-20) Terrors overtake him like waters. A storm steals him away in the night.

[21](#verse-21) The east wind carries him away, and he departs. It sweeps him out of his place.

[22](#verse-22) For it hurls at him, and does not spare, as he flees away from his hand.

[23](#verse-23) Men will clap their hands at him, and will hiss him out of his place.

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