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Chapter 27
Job reaffirms his innocence while acknowledging God’s power
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And Job continued his solemn discourse. He said:
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I swear by the living God who denies me justice, by Shaddai who has turned my life sour,
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that as long as a shred of life is left in me, and the breath of God breathes in my nostrils,
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my lips shall never speak untruth, nor any lie be found on my tongue.
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Far from ever admitting you to be in the right: I will maintain my innocence to my dying day.
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I take my stand on my integrity, I will not stir: my conscience gives me no cause to blush for my life.
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May my enemy meet a criminal’s end, and my opponent suffer with the guilty.
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For what hope, after all, has the godless when he prays, and raises his soul to God?
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Is God likely to hear his cries when disaster descends on him?
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Did he make Shaddai all his delight, calling on him at every turn?
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No: I am showing you how God’s power works, making no secret of Shaddai’s designs.
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And if you all had understood them for yourselves, you would not have wasted your breath in empty words.
The speech of Zophar: the accursed
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Here is the fate that God has in store for the wicked, and the inheritance with which Shaddai endows the man of violence.
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A sword awaits his sons, however many they may be, and their children after them will go unfed.
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Plague will bury those he leaves behind him, and their widows will have no chance to mourn them.
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He may collect silver like dust, and gather fine clothes like clay.
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Let him gather! Some good man will wear them, while his silver is shared among the innocent.
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He has built himself a spider’s web, made himself a watchman’s shack.
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He goes to bed a rich man, but never again: he wakes to find not a penny left.
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Terrors attack him in broad daylight, and at night a whirlwind sweeps him off.
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An east wind picks him up and drags him away, snatching him up from his homestead.
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Pitilessly he is turned into a target, and forced to flee from the hands that menace him.
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His downfall is greeted with applause, and hissing meets him on every side.
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