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Job 27

Good News Translation GNT

1 I swear by the living Almighty God,

2 who refuses me justice and makes my life bitter -

3 as long as God gives me breath,

4 my lips will never say anything evil, my tongue will never tell a lie.

5 I will never say that you men are right; I will insist on my innocence to my dying day.

6 I will never give up my claim to be right; my conscience is clear.

7 May all who oppose me and fight against me be punished like the wicked and the unrighteous.

8 What hope is there for the godless in the hour when God demands their life?

9 When trouble comes, will God hear their cries?

10 They should have desired the joy he gives; they should have constantly prayed to him.

11 Let me teach you how great is God's power, and explain what Almighty God has planned.

12 But no, after all, you have seen for yourselves; so why do you talk such nonsense?

13 This is how Almighty God punishes wicked, violent people.

14 They may have many sons, but all will be killed in war; their children never have enough to eat.

15 Those who survive will die from disease, and even their widows will not mourn their death.

16 The wicked may have too much silver to count and more clothes than anyone needs;

17 but some good person will wear the clothes, and someone honest will get the silver.

18 The wicked build houses like a spider's web or like the hut of a slave guarding the fields.

19 One last time they will lie down rich, and when they wake up, they will find their wealth gone.

20 Terror will strike like a sudden flood; a wind in the night will blow them away;

21 the east wind will sweep them from their homes;

22 it will blow down on them without pity while they try their best to escape.

23 The wind howls at them as they run, frightening them with destructive power.

Revised Standard Version RSV

1 And Job again took up his discourse, and said:

2 "As God lives, who has taken away my right, and the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter;

3 as long as my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;

4 my lips will not speak falsehood, and my tongue will not utter deceit.

5 Far be it from me to say that you are right; till I die I will not put away my integrity from me.

6 I hold fast my righteousness, and will not let it go; my heart does not reproach me for any of my days.

7 "Let my enemy be as the wicked, and let him that rises up against me be as the unrighteous.

8 For what is the hope of the godless when God cuts him off, when God takes away his life?

9 Will God hear his cry, when trouble comes upon him?

10 Will he take delight in the Almighty? Will he call upon God at all times?

11 I will teach you concerning the hand of God; what is with the Almighty I will not conceal.

12 Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves; why then have you become altogether vain?

13 "This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage which oppressors receive from the Almighty:

14 If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword; and his offspring have not enough to eat.

15 Those who survive him the pestilence buries, and their widows make no lamentation.

16 Though he heap up silver like dust, and pile up clothing like clay;

17 he may pile it up, but the just will wear it, and the innocent will divide the silver.

18 The house which he builds is like a spider's web, like a booth which a watchman makes.

19 He goes to bed rich, but will do so no more; he opens his eyes, and his wealth is gone.

20 Terrors overtake him like a flood; in the night a whirlwind carries him off.

21 The east wind lifts him up and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.

22 It hurls at him without pity; he flees from its power in headlong flight.

23 It claps its hands at him, and hisses at him from its place.