Good News Translation GNT
World English Bible WEB
1 I swear by the living Almighty God,
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Job again took up his parable, and said,
2 who refuses me justice and makes my life bitter -
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"As God lives, who has taken away my right, The Almighty, who has made my soul bitter.
3 as long as God gives me breath,
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(For the length of my life is still in me, And the spirit of God is in my nostrils);
4 my lips will never say anything evil, my tongue will never tell a lie.
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Surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, Neither shall my tongue utter deceit.
5 I will never say that you men are right; I will insist on my innocence to my dying day.
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Far be it from me that I should justify you. Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.
6 I will never give up my claim to be right; my conscience is clear.
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I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.
7 May all who oppose me and fight against me be punished like the wicked and the unrighteous.
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"Let my enemy be as the wicked, Let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous.
8 What hope is there for the godless in the hour when God demands their life?
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For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, When God takes away his life?
9 When trouble comes, will God hear their cries?
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Will God hear his cry, When trouble comes on him?
10 They should have desired the joy he gives; they should have constantly prayed to him.
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Will he delight himself in the Almighty, And call on God at all times?
11 Let me teach you how great is God's power, and explain what Almighty God has planned.
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I will teach you about the hand of God. That which is with the Almighty will I not conceal.
12 But no, after all, you have seen for yourselves; so why do you talk such nonsense?
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Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves; Why then have you become altogether vain?
13 This is how Almighty God punishes wicked, violent people.
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"This is the portion of a wicked man with God, The heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty.
14 They may have many sons, but all will be killed in war; their children never have enough to eat.
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If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword. His offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
15 Those who survive will die from disease, and even their widows will not mourn their death.
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Those who remain of him shall be buried in death. His widows shall make no lamentation.
16 The wicked may have too much silver to count and more clothes than anyone needs;
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Though he heap up silver as the dust, And prepare clothing as the clay;
17 but some good person will wear the clothes, and someone honest will get the silver.
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He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, And the innocent shall divide the silver.
18 The wicked build houses like a spider's web or like the hut of a slave guarding the fields.
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He builds his house as the moth, As a booth which the watchman makes.
19 One last time they will lie down rich, and when they wake up, they will find their wealth gone.
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He lies down rich, but he shall not do so again. He opens his eyes, and he is not.
20 Terror will strike like a sudden flood; a wind in the night will blow them away;
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Terrors overtake him like waters; A tempest steals him away in the night.
21 the east wind will sweep them from their homes;
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The east wind carries him away, and he departs; It sweeps him out of his place.
22 it will blow down on them without pity while they try their best to escape.
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For it hurls at him, and does not spare, As he flees away from his hand.
23 The wind howls at them as they run, frightening them with destructive power.
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Men shall clap their hands at him, And shall hiss him out of his place.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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