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He turned aside my judgment, "" And the Mighty—He made my soul bitter.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/27-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>For all the while my breath [is] in me, "" And the wind of God in my nostrils.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/27-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>My lips do not speak perverseness, "" And my tongue does not utter deceit.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/27-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Defilement to me—if I justify you, "" Until I expire I do not turn aside my integrity from me.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/27-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>On my righteousness I have laid hold, "" And I do not let it go, "" My heart does not reproach me while I live.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/27-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>My enemy is as the wicked, "" And my withstander as the perverse.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/27-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>For what [is] the hope of the profane, "" When He cuts off? When God casts off his soul?<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/27-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>[Does] God hear his cry, "" When distress comes on him?<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/27-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Does he delight himself on the Mighty? Call God at all times?<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/27-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>I show you by the hand of God, "" That which [is] with the Mighty I do not hide.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/27-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Behold, you—all of you—have seen, "" And why [is] this—you are altogether vain?<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/27-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>This [is] the portion of wicked man with God, "" And the inheritance of terrible ones "" They receive from the Mighty.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/27-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>If his sons multiply—a sword [is] for them. And his offspring [are] not satisfied [with] bread.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/27-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>His remnant are buried in death, "" And his widows do not weep.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/27-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>If he heaps up silver as dust, "" And prepares clothing as clay,<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/27-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>He prepares—and the righteous puts [it] on, "" And the innocent apportions the silver.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/27-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>He has built his house as a moth, "" And as a shelter a watchman has made.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/27-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>He lies down rich, and he is not gathered, "" He has opened his eyes, and he is not.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/27-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Terrors overtake him as waters, "" By night a whirlwind has stolen him away.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/27-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>An east wind takes him up, and he goes, "" And it frightens him from his place,<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/27-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And it casts at him, and does not spare, "" He diligently flees from its hand.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/job/27-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>It claps its hands at him, "" And it hisses at him from his place.” <p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Literal Standard Version<br>Copyright © 2022 by Covenant Press. 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