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Job 27

¹I swear by the living Almighty God, who refuses me justice and makes my life bitter---

³as long as God gives me breath,

⁴my lips will never say anything evil, my tongue will never tell a lie.

⁵I will never say that you men are right; I will insist on my innocence to my dying day.

⁶I will never give up my claim to be right; my conscience is clear.

⁷May all who oppose me and fight against me be punished like the wicked and the unrighteous.

⁸What hope is there for the godless in the hour when God demands their life?

⁹When trouble comes, will God hear their cries?

¹⁰They should have desired the joy he gives; they should have constantly prayed to him.

¹¹Let me teach you how great is God's power, and explain what Almighty God has planned.

¹²But no, after all, you have seen for yourselves; so why do you talk such nonsense?

¹³This is how Almighty God punishes wicked, violent people.

¹⁴They may have many sons, but all will be killed in war; their children never have enough to eat.

¹⁵Those who survive will die from disease, and even their widows will not mourn their death.

¹⁶The wicked may have too much silver to count and more clothes than anyone needs;

¹⁷but some good person will wear the clothes, and someone honest will get the silver.

¹⁸The wicked build houses like a spider's web or like the hut of a slave guarding the fields.

¹⁹One last time they will lie down rich, and when they wake up, they will find their wealth gone.

²⁰Terror will strike like a sudden flood; a wind in the night will blow them away;

²¹the east wind will sweep them from their homes;

²²it will blow down on them without pity while they try their best to escape.

²³The wind howls at them as they run, frightening them with destructive power.