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27:1  Job again took up his discourse and said:
27:2  ‘As God lives, who has taken away my right, and the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter,
27:3  as long as my breath is in me and the spirit of God is in my nostrils,
27:4  my lips will not speak falsehood, and my tongue will not utter deceit.
27:5  Far be it from me to say that you are right; until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.
27:6  I hold fast my righteousness, and will not let it go; my heart does not reproach me for any of my days.
27:7  ‘May my enemy be like the wicked, and may my opponent be like the unrighteous.
27:8  For what is the hope of the godless when God cuts them off, when God takes away their lives?
27:9  Will God hear their cry when trouble comes upon them?
27:10  Will they take delight in the Almighty? Will they call upon God at all times?
27:11  I will teach you concerning the hand of God; that which is with the Almighty I will not conceal.
27:12  All of you have seen it yourselves; why then have you become altogether vain?
27:13  ‘This is the portion of the wicked with God, and the heritage that oppressors receive from the Almighty:
27:14  If their children are multiplied, it is for the sword; and their offspring have not enough to eat.
27:15  Those who survive them the pestilence buries, and their widows make no lamentation.
27:16  Though they heap up silver like dust, and pile up clothing like clay—
27:17  they may pile it up, but the just will wear it, and the innocent will divide the silver.
27:18  They build their houses like nests, like booths made by sentinels of the vineyard.
27:19  They go to bed with wealth, but will do so no more; they open their eyes, and it is gone.
27:20  Terrors overtake them like a flood; in the night a whirlwind carries them off.
27:21  The east wind lifts them up and they are gone; it sweeps them out of their place.
27:22  It hurls at them without pity; they flee from its power in headlong flight.
27:23  It claps its hands at them, and hisses at them from its place.