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Job 27 📜 📕 ↷
Job Affirms His Integrity
1 JOB also added, taking his parable, and said:📜💬📚
2 God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment, and the Omnipotent, which hath brought my soul to bitterness.📜💬📚
3 That 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 meditate lying.📜💬📚
5 God forbid that I should judge you to be just: till I fail, I will not depart from mine innocency.📜💬📚
6 My justification which I have begun to hold, I will not forsake for my heart doth not reprehend me in all my life.📜💬📚
Wicked Man's Portion
7 Let mine enemy be as the impious, and mine adversary as the wicked one.📜💬📚
8 For what is the hypocrite's hope, if covetously 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 be delighted in the Omnipotent, and invocate God at all time?📜💬📚
11 I will teach you by the hand of God, what the Omnipotent hath, neither will I hide it.📜💬📚
12 Lo, you do all know, and why speak you vain things without cause?📜💬📚
13 This is the portion of an impious man with God, and inheritance of the violent, which they shall receive of the Omnipotent.📜💬📚
14 If his children be multiplied, they shall be in the sword, & his nephews shall not be filled with bread.📜💬📚
15 They that shall be left of him, shall be buried in death, and his widows shall not weep.📜💬📚
16 If he shall heap together silver as earth, and as clay shall prepare garments:📜💬📚
17 He shall prepare indeed, but the just man shall be clothed with them: and the innocent shall divide the silver.📜💬📚
18 He hath built his house as a moth, and as a keeper hath he made a bower.📜💬📚
19 The rich man when he shall sleep shall take away nothing with him: he shall open his eyes, and find nothing.📜💬📚
20 Poverty as water shall apprehend him, in the night a tempest shall oppress him.📜💬📚
21 The burning wind shall take him up, and carry him away, and as a whirlwind shall pull him violently out of his place.📜💬📚
22 And he shall cast upon him, and shall not spare: out of his hand flying he shall fly.📜💬📚
23 He shall clasp his hands upon him, and shall hiss upon him, beholding his place.📜💬📚
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