Thematic Bible
Job 27:1 (show verse)
JOB CONTINUED:
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Job 27:2 (show verse)
As God lives, who has denied me justice, the Almighty? Who has made me taste bitterness?
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Job 27:3 (show verse)
As long as I have life within me, the breath of God in my nostrils,
Job 27:4 (show verse)
my lips will not speak wickedness, and my tongue will not utter deceit.
Job 27:5 (show verse)
I will not admit you are in the right. Until I die, I will not deny my integrity!
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Job 27:6 (show verse)
I will maintain my righteousness and never let go of it! My conscience will not reproach me as long as I live.
Job 27:7 (show verse)
May my enemies be like the wicked, my adversaries like the unjust!
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Job 27:8 (show verse)
What hope doe the godless have when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?
Job 27:9 (show verse)
Does God listen to his cry when distress comes upon him?
Job 27:10 (show verse)
Will he find delight in the Almighty? Will he call upon God at all times?
Job 27:11 (show verse)
I will teach you about the power of God; the ways of the Almighty I will not conceal.
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Job 27:12 (show verse)
You have all seen this yourselves. Why then this meaningless talk?
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Job 27:13 (show verse)
Here is the fate God accords the wicked. This is the heritage a ruthless man receives from the Almighty:
Job 27:14 (show verse)
No mater how many his children, their fate is the sword. His offspring will never have enough to eat.
Job 27:15 (show verse)
The plague will bury those who survive him. Their widows will not weep for them.
Job 27:16 (show verse)
Though he heaps up silver like dust and clothes like piles of clay,
Job 27:17 (show verse)
what he lays up the righteous will wear, and the innocent will divide his silver.
Job 27:18 (show verse)
The house he builds is like a moth's cocoon, like a hut made by a watchman.
Job 27:19 (show verse)
He lies down wealthy and wakes up and all is gone.
Job 27:20 (show verse)
Terrors overtake him like a flood; a tempest snatches him away in the night.
Job 27:21 (show verse)
The east wind carries him off. He is gone and it sweeps him out of his place.
Job 27:22 (show verse)
It hurls itself against him without mercy as he flees headlong from its power.
Job 27:23 (show verse)
Men will clap their hands in derision (ridicule) and hiss him out of his place.