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Young's Literal Translation YLT
1 And Job continued his discourse:
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And Job addeth to lift up his simile, and saith: --
2 “As surely as God lives, who has denied me justice, the Almighty, who has made my life bitter,
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God liveth! He turned aside my judgment, And the Mighty -- He made my soul bitter.
3 as long as I have life within me, the breath of God in my nostrils,
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For all the while my breath [is] 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 do not speak perverseness, And my tongue doth not utter deceit.
5 I will never admit you are in the right; till I die, I will not deny my integrity.
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Pollution to me -- if I justify you, Till I expire I turn not aside mine integrity from me.
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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On my righteousness I have laid hold, And I do not let it go, My heart doth not reproach me while I live.
7 “May my enemy be like the wicked, my adversary like the unjust!
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As the wicked is my enemy, And my withstander as the perverse.
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 profane, When He doth cut off? When God doth cast off his soul?
9 Does God listen to their cry when distress comes upon them?
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His cry doth God hear, When distress cometh on him?
10 Will they find delight in the Almighty? Will they call on God at all times?
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On the Mighty doth he delight himself? Call 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 shew you by the hand of God, That which [is] with the Mighty I hide not.
12 You have all seen this yourselves. Why then this meaningless talk?
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Lo, ye -- all of you -- have seen, And why [is] this -- ye are altogether vain?
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 wicked man with God, And the inheritance of terrible ones From the Mighty they receive.
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 multiply -- for them [is] a sword. And his offspring [are] not satisfied [with] bread.
15 The plague will bury those who survive him, and their widows will not weep for them.
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His remnant in death are buried, And his widows do not weep.
16 Though he heaps up silver like dust and clothes like piles of clay,
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If he heap up as dust silver, And as clay prepare clothing,
17 what he lays up the righteous will wear, and the innocent will divide his silver.
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He prepareth -- and the righteous putteth [it] on, And the silver the innocent doth apportion.
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 as a moth his house, And as a booth a watchman hath made.
19 He lies down wealthy, but will do so no more; when he opens his eyes, all is gone.
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Rich he lieth down, and he is not gathered, His eyes he hath opened, and he is not.
20 Terrors overtake him like a flood; a tempest snatches him away in the night.
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Overtake him as waters do terrors, By night stolen him away hath a whirlwind.
21 The east wind carries him off, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.
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Take him up doth an east wind, and he goeth, And it frighteneth him from his place,
22 It hurls itself against him without mercy as he flees headlong from its power.
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And it casteth at him, and doth not spare, From its hand he diligently fleeth.
23 It claps its hands in derision and hisses him out of his place.”
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It clappeth at him its hands, And it hisseth at him from his place.
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