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Job 27

Common English Bible CEB

1 Then Job took up his topic again:

2 As God lives, who rejected my legal claim, the Almighty, who made me bitter,

3 as long as breath is in me and God's breath is in my nostrils—

4 my lips will utter no wickedness; my tongue will mumble no deceit.

5 I will not agree that you are right. Until my dying day, I won't give up my integrity.

6 I will insist on my innocence, never surrendering it; my conscience will never blame me for what I have done.

7 Let my enemy be like the wicked, my opposition like the vicious.

8 For what hope has the godless when God cuts them off, when he takes them away.

9 Will God hear their cries when distress comes to them;

10 will they delight in the Almighty, call God at any time?

11 I will teach you God's power, not hide what pertains to the Almighty.

12 Look, those of you who recognize this— why then this empty talk?

13 This is the wicked's portion with God, the inheritance that the ruthless receive from the Almighty.

14 If their children increase, they belong to the sword; their offspring won't have enough bread.

15 Their survivors will be buried with the dead; their widows won't weep.

16 If they store up silver like dust, amass clothing like clay,

17 they may amass, but the righteous will wear it; the innocent will divide the silver.

18 They built their houses like nests, like a hut made by a watchman.

19 They lie down rich, but no longer; open their eyes, but it's missing.

20 Terrors overtake them like waters; a tempest snatches them by night;

21 an east wind lifts them, and they are gone, removes them from their places,

22 throws itself on them without mercy; they flee desperately from its force.

23 It claps its hands over them, hisses at them from their place.

The Message Bible MSG

1 Having waited for Zophar, Job now resumed his defense:

2 "God-Alive! He's denied me justice! God Almighty! He's ruined my life!

3 But for as long as I draw breath, and for as long as God breathes life into me,

4 I refuse to say one word that isn't true. I refuse to confess to any charge that's false.

5 There is no way I'll ever agree to your accusations. I'll not deny my integrity even if it costs me my life.

6 I'm holding fast to my integrity and not loosening my grip - and, believe me, I'll never regret it.

7 "Let my enemy be exposed as wicked! Let my adversary be proven guilty!

8 What hope do people without God have when life is cut short? when God puts an end to life?

9 Do you think God will listen to their cry for help when disaster hits?

10 What interest have they ever shown in the Almighty? Have they ever been known to pray before?

11 "I've given you a clear account of God in action, suppressed nothing regarding God Almighty.

12 The evidence is right before you. You can all see it for yourselves, so why do you keep talking nonsense?

13 "I'll quote your own words back to you: "'This is how God treats the wicked, this is what evil people can expect from God Almighty:

14 Their children - all of them - will die violent deaths; they'll never have enough bread to put on the table.

15 They'll be wiped out by the plague, and none of the widows will shed a tear when they're gone.

16 Even if they make a lot of money and are resplendent in the latest fashions,

17 It's the good who will end up wearing the clothes and the decent who will divide up the money.

18 They build elaborate houses that won't survive a single winter.

19 They go to bed wealthy and wake up poor.

20 Terrors pour in on them like flash floods - a tornado snatches them away in the middle of the night,

21 A cyclone sweeps them up - gone! Not a trace of them left, not even a footprint.

22 Catastrophes relentlessly pursue them; they run this way and that, but there's no place to hide -

23 Pummeled by the weather, blown to kingdom come by the storm.'