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Job Continues: I Will Maintain My Integrity

And Job again took up his discourse, and said:

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Job’s Final Speech

Job continued speaking:

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“As God lives, who has taken away my right,
and the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter,

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“I vow by the living God, who has taken away my rights,
by the Almighty who has embittered my soul —

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as long as my breath is in me,
and the spirit of God is in my nostrils,

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As long as I live,
while I have breath from God,

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my lips will not speak falsehood,
and my tongue will not utter deceit.

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my lips will speak no evil,
and my tongue will speak no lies.

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Far be it from me to say that you are right;
till I die I will not put away my integrity from me.

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I will never concede that you are right;
I will defend my integrity until I die.

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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.

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I will maintain my innocence without wavering.
My conscience is clear for as long as I live.

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“Let my enemy be as the wicked,
and let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous.

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“May my enemy be punished like the wicked,
my adversary like those who do evil.

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For what is the hope of the godless when God cuts him off,
when God takes away his life?

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For what hope do the godless have when God cuts them off
and takes away their life?

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Will God hear his cry
when distress comes upon him?

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Will God listen to their cry
when trouble comes upon them?

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Will he take delight in the Almighty?
Will he call upon God at all times?

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Can they take delight in the Almighty?
Can they call to God at any time?

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I will teach you concerning the hand of God;
what is with the Almighty I will not conceal.

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I will teach you about God’s power.
I will not conceal anything concerning the Almighty.

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Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves;
why then have you become altogether vain?

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But you have seen all this,
yet you say all these useless things to me.

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“This is the portion of a wicked man with God,
and the heritage that oppressors receive from the Almighty:

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“This is what the wicked will receive from God;
this is their inheritance from the Almighty.

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If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword,
and his descendants have not enough bread.

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They may have many children,
but the children will die in war or starve to death.

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Those who survive him the pestilence buries,
and his widows do not weep.

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Those who survive will die of a plague,
and not even their widows will mourn them.

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Though he heap up silver like dust,
and pile up clothing like clay,

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“Evil people may have piles of money
and may store away mounds of clothing.

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he may pile it up, but the righteous will wear it,
and the innocent will divide the silver.

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But the righteous will wear that clothing,
and the innocent will divide that money.

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He builds his house like a moth’s,
like a booth that a watchman makes.

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The wicked build houses as fragile as a spider’s web,a
as flimsy as a shelter made of branches.

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He goes to bed rich, but will do so no more;
he opens his eyes, and his wealth is gone.

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The wicked go to bed rich
but wake to find that all their wealth is gone.

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Terrors overtake him like a flood;
in the night a whirlwind carries him off.

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Terror overwhelms them like a flood,
and they are blown away in the storms of the night.

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The east wind lifts him up and he is gone;
it sweeps him out of his place.

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The east wind carries them away, and they are gone.
It sweeps them away.

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Ita hurls at him without pity;
he flees from itsb power in headlong flight.

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It whirls down on them without mercy.
They struggle to flee from its power.

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It claps its hands at him
and hisses at him from its place.

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But everyone jeers at them
and mocks them.

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Job 27

Job 27