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1 And Job continued his discourse:
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Job also added, taking up his parable, and said:
2 “As surely as God lives, who has denied me justice, the Almighty, who has made my life bitter,
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As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment, and the Almighty, who hath brought my soul to bitterness,
3 as long as I have life within me, the breath of God in my nostrils,
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As long as breath remaineth in me, and the spirit of God in my nostrils,
4 my lips will not say anything wicked, and my tongue will not utter lies.
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My lips shall not speak iniquity, neither shall my tongue contrive lying.
5 I will never admit you are in the right; till I die, I will not deny my integrity.
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God forbid that I should judge you to be just: till I die I will not depart from my innocence.
6 I will maintain my innocence and never let go of it; my conscience will not reproach me as long as I live.
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My justification, which I have begun to hold, I will not forsake: for my heart doth not reprehend me in all my life.
7 “May my enemy be like the wicked, my adversary like the unjust!
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Let my enemy be as the ungodly, and my adversary as the wicked one.
8 For what hope have the godless when they are cut off, when God takes away their life?
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For what is the hope of the hypocrite if through covetousness he take by violence, and God deliver not his soul?
9 Does God listen to their cry when distress comes upon them?
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Will God hear his cry, when distress shall come upon him?
10 Will they find delight in the Almighty? Will they call on God at all times?
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Or can he delight himself in the Almighty, and call upon God at all times?
11 “I will teach you about the power of God; the ways of the Almighty I will not conceal.
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I will teach you by the hand of God, what the Almighty hath, and I will not conceal it.
12 You have all seen this yourselves. Why then this meaningless talk?
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Behold you all know it, and why do you speak vain things without cause?
13 “Here is the fate God allots to the wicked, the heritage a ruthless man receives from the Almighty:
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This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the inheritance of the violent, which they shall receive of the Almighty.
14 However many his children, their fate is the sword; his offspring will never have enough to eat.
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If his sons be multiplied, they shall be for the sword, and his grandsons shall not be filled with bread.
15 The plague will bury those who survive him, and their widows will not weep for them.
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They that shall remain of him, shall be buried in death, and his widows shall not weep.
16 Though he heaps up silver like dust and clothes like piles of clay,
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If he shall heap together silver as earth, and prepare raiment as clay,
17 what he lays up the righteous will wear, and the innocent will divide his silver.
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He shall prepare indeed, but the just man shall be clothed with it: and the innocent shall divide the silver.
18 The house he builds is like a moth’s cocoon, like a hut made by a watchman.
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He hath built his house as a moth, and as a keeper he hath made a booth.
19 He lies down wealthy, but will do so no more; when he opens his eyes, all is gone.
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The rich man when he shall sleep shall take away nothing with him: he shall open his eyes and find nothing.
20 Terrors overtake him like a flood; a tempest snatches him away in the night.
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Poverty like water shall take hold on him, a tempest shall oppress him in the night:
21 The east wind carries him off, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.
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A burning wind shall take him up, and carry him away, and as a whirlwind shall snatch him from his place.
22 It hurls itself against him without mercy as he flees headlong from its power.
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And he shall cast upon him, and shall not spare: out of his hand he would willingly flee.
23 It claps its hands in derision and hisses him out of his place.”
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He shall clasp his hands upon him, and shall hiss at him, beholding his place.
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