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1 Job also added, taking up his parable, and said:
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Job again took up his discourse and said:
2 As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment, and the Almighty, who hath brought my soul to bitterness,
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"As God lives, who has taken away my right, and the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter,
3 As long as breath remaineth in me, and the spirit of God in my nostrils,
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as long as my breath is in me and the spirit of God is in my nostrils,
4 My lips shall not speak iniquity, neither shall my tongue contrive lying.
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my lips will not speak falsehood, and my tongue will not utter deceit.
5 God forbid that I should judge you to be just: till I die I will not depart from my innocence.
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Far be it from me to say that you are right; until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.
6 My justification, which I have begun to hold, I will not forsake: for my heart doth not reprehend me in all my life.
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I hold fast my righteousness, and will not let it go; my heart does not reproach me for any of my days.
7 Let my enemy be as the ungodly, and my adversary as the wicked one.
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"May my enemy be like the wicked, and may my opponent be like the unrighteous.
8 For what is the hope of the hypocrite if through covetousness he take by violence, and God deliver not his soul?
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For what is the hope of the godless when God cuts them off, when God takes away their lives?
9 Will God hear his cry, when distress shall come upon him?
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Will God hear their cry when trouble comes upon them?
10 Or can he delight himself in the Almighty, and call upon God at all times?
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Will they take delight in the Almighty? Will they 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.
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I will teach you concerning the hand of God; that which is with the Almighty I will not conceal.
12 Behold you all know it, and why do you speak vain things without cause?
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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, and the inheritance of the violent, which they shall receive of the Almighty.
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"This is the portion of the wicked with God, and the heritage that oppressors receive from the Almighty:
14 If his sons be multiplied, they shall be for the sword, and his grandsons shall not be filled with bread.
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If their children are multiplied, it is for the sword; and their offspring have not enough to eat.
15 They that shall remain of him, shall be buried in death, and his widows shall not weep.
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Those who survive them the pestilence buries, and their widows make no lamentation.
16 If he shall heap together silver as earth, and prepare raiment as clay,
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Though they heap up silver like dust, and pile up clothing like clay—
17 He shall prepare indeed, but the just man shall be clothed with it: and the innocent shall divide the silver.
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they may pile it up, but the just will wear it, and the innocent will divide the silver.
18 He hath built his house as a moth, and as a keeper he hath made a booth.
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They build their houses like nests, like booths made by sentinels of the vineyard.
19 The rich man when he shall sleep shall take away nothing with him: he shall open his eyes and find nothing.
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They go to bed with wealth, but will do so no more; they open their eyes, and it is gone.
20 Poverty like water shall take hold on him, a tempest shall oppress him in the night:
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Terrors overtake them like a flood; in the night a whirlwind carries them off.
21 A burning wind shall take him up, and carry him away, and as a whirlwind shall snatch him from his place.
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The east wind lifts them up and they are gone; it sweeps them out of their place.
22 And he shall cast upon him, and shall not spare: out of his hand he would willingly flee.
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It hurls at them without pity; they flee from its power in headlong flight.
23 He shall clasp his hands upon him, and shall hiss at him, beholding his place.
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It claps its hands at them, and hisses at them from its place.
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