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Job 27

Brenton's English Septuagint · Berean Standard Bible

27:1

And Job further continued and said in his parable,

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27:2

[As] God lives, who has thus judged me; and the Almighty, who has embittered my soul;

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27:3

verily, while my breath is yet in [me], and the breath of God which remains to me is in my nostrils,

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my lips shall not speak evil words, neither shall my soul meditate unrighteous thoughts.

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27:5

Far be it from me that I should justify you till I die; for I will not let go my innocence,

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27:6

but keeping fast to [my] righteousness I will by no means let it go: for I am not conscious to myself of having done any thing amiss.

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27:7

Nay rather, but let mine enemies be as the overthrow of the ungodly, and they that rise up against me, as the destruction of transgressors.

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For what is the hope of the ungodly, that he holds to it? will he indeed trust in the Lord [and] be saved?

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27:9

Will God hear his prayer? or, when distress has come upon him,

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27:10

has he any confidence before him? or will [God] hear him as he calls upon him?

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27:11

Yet now I will tell you what is in the hand of the Lord: I will not lie concerning the things which are with the Almighty.

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27:12

Behold, ye all know that ye are adding vanity to vanity.

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27:13

This is the portion of an ungodly man from the Lord, and the possession of oppressors shall come upon them from the Almighty.

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27:14

And if their children be many, they shall be for slaughter: and if they grow up, they shall beg.

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27:15

And they that survive of him shall utterly perish, and no one shall pity their widows.

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27:16

Even if he should gather silver as earth, and prepare gold as clay;

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all these things shall the righteous gain, and the truehearted shall possess his wealth.

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27:18

And his house is gone like moths, and like a spider's web.

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27:19

The rich man shall lie down, and shall not continue: he has opened his eyes, and he is not.

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27:20

Pains have come upon him as water, and darkness has carried him away by night.

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27:21

And a burning wind shall catch him, and he shall depart, and it shall utterly drive him out of his place.

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27:22

And [God] shall cast [trouble] upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.

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27:23

He shall cause [men] to clap their hands against them, and shall hiss him out of his place.

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