Chapter 27

  Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,  

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  [As] God liveth, [who] hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, [who] hath vexed my soul;  

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  All the while my breath [is] in me, and the spirit of God [is] in my nostrils;  

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  My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.  

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  God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me.  

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  My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach [me] so long as I live.  

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  Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous.  

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  For what [is] the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?  

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  Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him?  

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  Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?  

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  I will teach you by the hand of God: [that] which [is] with the Almighty will I not conceal.  

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  Behold, all ye yourselves have seen [it]; why then are ye thus altogether vain?  

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  This [is] the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, [which] they shall receive of the Almighty.  

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  If his children be multiplied, [it is] for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.  

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  Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep.  

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  Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;  

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  He may prepare [it], but the just shall put [it] on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.  

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  He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth [that] the keeper maketh.  

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  The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he openeth his eyes, and he [is] not.  

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  Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.  

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  The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.  

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  For [God] shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.  

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  [Men] shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.  

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