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Job 27

Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible RHE

1 Job also added, taking up his parable, and said:

2 As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment, and the Almighty, who hath brought my soul to bitterness,

3 As long as breath remaineth in me, and the spirit of God in my nostrils,

4 My lips shall not speak iniquity, neither shall my tongue contrive lying.

5 God forbid that I should judge you to be just: till I die I will not depart from my innocence.

6 My justification, which I have begun to hold, I will not forsake: for my heart doth not reprehend me in all my life.

7 Let my enemy be as the ungodly, and my adversary as the wicked one.

8 For what is the hope of the hypocrite if through covetousness he take by violence, and God deliver not his soul?

9 Will God hear his cry, when distress shall come upon him?

10 Or can he delight himself in the Almighty, and call upon God at all times?

11 I will teach you by the hand of God, what the Almighty hath, and I will not conceal it.

12 Behold you all know it, and why do you speak vain things without cause?

13 This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the inheritance of the violent, which they shall receive of the Almighty.

14 If his sons be multiplied, they shall be for the sword, and his grandsons shall not be filled with bread.

15 They that shall remain of him, shall be buried in death, and his widows shall not weep.

16 If he shall heap together silver as earth, and prepare raiment as clay,

17 He shall prepare indeed, but the just man shall be clothed with it: and the innocent shall divide the silver.

18 He hath built his house as a moth, and as a keeper he hath made a booth.

19 The rich man when he shall sleep shall take away nothing with him: he shall open his eyes and find nothing.

20 Poverty like water shall take hold on him, a tempest shall oppress him in the night:

21 A burning wind shall take him up, and carry him away, and as a whirlwind shall snatch him from his place.

22 And he shall cast upon him, and shall not spare: out of his hand he would willingly flee.

23 He shall clasp his hands upon him, and shall hiss at him, beholding his place.

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.'