Job 27
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Job 27
Job Maintains His Integrity
1 #
Job 13.12; 29.1 Job again took up his discourse and said:
2 #
Job 9.18; 34.5 “As God lives, who has taken away my right,
and the Almighty,#27.2 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai who has made my soul bitter,
3as long as my breath is in me
and the spirit of God is in my nostrils,
4 #
Job 6.28
my lips will not speak falsehood,
and my tongue will not utter deceit.
5 #
Job 2.9; 13.15 Far be it from me to say that you are right;
until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.
6 #
Job 2.3; 13.18; Acts 23.1 I hold fast my righteousness and will not let it go;
my heart will not reproach me as long as I live.
7“May my enemy be like the wicked,
and may my opponent be like the unrighteous.
8 #
Job 8.13; 11.20 For what is the hope of the godless when God cuts them off,
when God takes away their lives?
9 #
Job 35.12; Prov 1.28; Isa 1.15; Jer 14.12; Mic 3.4 Will God hear their cry
when trouble comes upon them?
10 #
Job 22.26, 27 Will they take delight in the Almighty?#27.10 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai
Will they call upon God at all times?
11I will teach you concerning the hand of God;
that which is with the Almighty#27.11 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai I will not conceal.
12All of you have seen it yourselves;
why then have you become altogether vain?
13 #
Job 15.20; 20.29 “This is the portion of the wicked with God
and the heritage that oppressors receive from the Almighty:#27.13 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai
14 #
Deut 28.41; Job 20.10; Hos 9.13 If their children are multiplied, it is for the sword,
and their offspring have not enough to eat.
15 #
Ps 78.64
Those who survive them the pestilence buries,
and their widows make no lamentation.
16 #
Zech 9.3
Though they heap up silver like dust
and pile up clothing like clay,
17 #
Prov 28.8; Eccl 2.26 they may pile it up, but the just will wear it,
and the innocent will divide the silver.
18They build their houses like nests,
like booths made by sentinels of the vineyard.
19 #
Job 7.8, 21; Ezek 29.5 They go to bed with wealth but will do so no more;
they open their eyes, and it is gone.
20 #
Job 15.21; 20.8 Terrors overtake them like a flood;
in the night a whirlwind carries them off.
21 #
Job 7.10; 21.18 The east wind lifts them up, and they are gone;
it sweeps them out of their place.
22 #
Job 11.20; Jer 13.14; Ezek 5.11 It#27.22 Or He (that is, God) hurls at them without pity;
they flee from its#27.22 Or his power in headlong flight.
23 #
Job 18.18; Lam 2.15 It#27.23 Or He (that is, God) claps its#27.23 Or his hands at them
and hisses at them from its#27.23 Or his place.
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Job 27
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Job 27
Job Maintains His Integrity
1 #
Job 13.12; 29.1 Job again took up his discourse and said:
2 #
Job 9.18; 34.5 “As God lives, who has taken away my right,
and the Almighty,#27.2 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai who has made my soul bitter,
3as long as my breath is in me
and the spirit of God is in my nostrils,
4 #
Job 6.28
my lips will not speak falsehood,
and my tongue will not utter deceit.
5 #
Job 2.9; 13.15 Far be it from me to say that you are right;
until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.
6 #
Job 2.3; 13.18; Acts 23.1 I hold fast my righteousness and will not let it go;
my heart will not reproach me as long as I live.
7“May my enemy be like the wicked,
and may my opponent be like the unrighteous.
8 #
Job 8.13; 11.20 For what is the hope of the godless when God cuts them off,
when God takes away their lives?
9 #
Job 35.12; Prov 1.28; Isa 1.15; Jer 14.12; Mic 3.4 Will God hear their cry
when trouble comes upon them?
10 #
Job 22.26, 27 Will they take delight in the Almighty?#27.10 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai
Will they call upon God at all times?
11I will teach you concerning the hand of God;
that which is with the Almighty#27.11 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai I will not conceal.
12All of you have seen it yourselves;
why then have you become altogether vain?
13 #
Job 15.20; 20.29 “This is the portion of the wicked with God
and the heritage that oppressors receive from the Almighty:#27.13 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai
14 #
Deut 28.41; Job 20.10; Hos 9.13 If their children are multiplied, it is for the sword,
and their offspring have not enough to eat.
15 #
Ps 78.64
Those who survive them the pestilence buries,
and their widows make no lamentation.
16 #
Zech 9.3
Though they heap up silver like dust
and pile up clothing like clay,
17 #
Prov 28.8; Eccl 2.26 they may pile it up, but the just will wear it,
and the innocent will divide the silver.
18They build their houses like nests,
like booths made by sentinels of the vineyard.
19 #
Job 7.8, 21; Ezek 29.5 They go to bed with wealth but will do so no more;
they open their eyes, and it is gone.
20 #
Job 15.21; 20.8 Terrors overtake them like a flood;
in the night a whirlwind carries them off.
21 #
Job 7.10; 21.18 The east wind lifts them up, and they are gone;
it sweeps them out of their place.
22 #
Job 11.20; Jer 13.14; Ezek 5.11 It#27.22 Or He (that is, God) hurls at them without pity;
they flee from its#27.22 Or his power in headlong flight.
23 #
Job 18.18; Lam 2.15 It#27.23 Or He (that is, God) claps its#27.23 Or his hands at them
and hisses at them from its#27.23 Or his place.
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