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Job 27

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.'

World English Bible WEB

1 Job again took up his parable, and said,

2 "As God lives, who has taken away my right, The Almighty, who has made my soul bitter.

3 (For the length of my life is still in me, And the spirit of God is in my nostrils);

4 Surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, Neither shall my tongue utter deceit.

5 Far be it from me that I should justify you. Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.

6 I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.

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

8 For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, When God takes away his life?

9 Will God hear his cry, When trouble comes on him?

10 Will he delight himself in the Almighty, And call on God at all times?

11 I will teach you about the hand of God. That which is with the Almighty will I 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, The heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty.

14 If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword. His offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

15 Those who remain of him shall be buried in death. His widows shall make no lamentation.

16 Though he heap up silver as the dust, And prepare clothing as the clay;

17 He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, And the innocent shall divide the silver.

18 He builds his house as the moth, As a booth which the watchman makes.

19 He lies down rich, but he shall not do so again. He opens his eyes, and he is not.

20 Terrors overtake him like waters; A tempest steals him away in the night.

21 The east wind carries him away, and he departs; It sweeps him out of his place.

22 For it hurls at him, and does not spare, As he flees away from his hand.

23 Men shall clap their hands at him, And shall hiss him out of his place.