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Job's Final Speech
Chapter 27
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Job continued speaking:
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"I vow by the living God, who has taken away my rights,
by the Almighty who has embittered my soul--
- As long as I live,
while I have breath from God,
- my lips will speak no evil,
and my tongue will speak no lies.
- I will never concede that you are right;
I will defend my integrity until I die.
- I will maintain my innocence without wavering.
My conscience is clear for as long as I live.
- "May my enemy be punished like the wicked,
my adversary like those who do evil.
- For what hope do the godless have when God cuts them off
and takes away their life?
- Will God listen to their cry
when trouble comes upon them?
- Can they take delight in the Almighty?
Can they call to God at any time?
- I will teach you about God's power.
I will not conceal anything concerning the Almighty.
- But you have seen all this,
yet you say all these useless things to me.
- "This is what the wicked will receive from God;
this is their inheritance from the Almighty.
- They may have many children,
but the children will die in war or starve to death.
- Those who survive will die of a plague,
and not even their widows will mourn them.
- "Evil people may have piles of money
and may store away mounds of clothing.
- But the righteous will wear that clothing,
and the innocent will divide that money.
- The wicked build houses as fragile as a spider's web,
as flimsy as a shelter made of branches.
- The wicked go to bed rich
but wake to find that all their wealth is gone.
- Terror overwhelms them like a flood,
and they are blown away in the storms of the night.
- The east wind carries them away, and they are gone.
It sweeps them away.
- It whirls down on them without mercy.
They struggle to flee from its power.
- But everyone jeers at them
and mocks them.