Job 27
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Job’s Last Words to His Friends
1#Nu 23:7; Job 29:1Moreover Job continued his discourse:
2#Job 34:5; 2Ki 4:27 “As God lives, who has taken away my judgment,
and the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter,
3#Ge 2:7; Job 33:4 all the while my spirit is in me,
and the breath of God is in my nostrils,
4#Job 13:7 my lips will not speak wickedness,
nor my tongue utter deceit.
5#Job 2:9; 13:15 God forbid that I should justify you.
Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.
6#Job 2:3; Ac 24:16 My righteousness I hold fast and will not let it go;
my heart will not reproach me as long as I live.
7“Let my enemy be like the wicked,
and he who rises up against me like the unrighteous.
8#Job 11:20; 8:13 For what is the hope of the hypocrite,
though he may gain much, when God takes away his soul?
9#Pr 1:28; Isa 1:15 Will God hear his cry
when trouble comes upon him?
10#Job 22:26–27; Ps 37:4 Will he delight himself in the Almighty?
Will he always call upon God?
11“I will teach you about the hand of God;
what is with the Almighty I will not conceal.
12Look, all of you have seen it;
why then have you become altogether vain?
13“This is the portion of a wicked man with God,
and the inheritance that oppressors receive from the Almighty:
14#Dt 28:41 If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword,
and his offspring will not be satisfied with bread.
15#Ps 78:64 Those who survive him will be buried in death,
and their widows will not weep.
16#Zec 9:3 Though he heaps up silver like the dust
and piles up clothing like the clay—
17#Ecc 2:26; Pr 13:22 he may pile it up, but the just will wear it,
and the innocent will divide the silver.
18#Job 8:14–15; Isa 1:8 He builds his house like a moth,
and like a booth that the watchman makes.
19#Job 24:24; Jer 8:2 The rich man will lie down, but he will not be gathered;
he opens his eyes, and he is not.
20#Job 15:21; 18:11 Terrors overtake him like floodwaters;
a tempest steals him away in the night.
21The east wind carries him away, and he departs;
it sweeps him out of his place.
22For God will cast it upon him and not spare;
he would flee from its power.
23#La 2:15; Zep 2:15 Men will clap their hands at him
and will hiss him out of his place.
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