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Almighty,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15554a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> who has made my soul bitter,</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>as long as my breath is in me</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and the spirit of God is in my nostrils,</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>my lips will not speak falsehood,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and my tongue will not utter deceit.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>Far be it from me to say that you are right;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>I hold fast my righteousness, and will not let it go;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">my heart does not reproach me for any of my days.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>“May my enemy be like the wicked,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and may my opponent be like the unrighteous.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>For what is the hope of the godless when God cuts them off,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">when God takes away their lives?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>Will God hear their cry</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">when trouble comes upon them?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>Will they take delight in the Almighty?<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15562b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">Will they call upon God at all times?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>I will teach you concerning the hand of God;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">that which is with the Almighty<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15563c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> I will not conceal.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>All of you have seen it yourselves;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">why then have you become altogether vain?</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>“This is the portion of the wicked with God,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and the heritage that oppressors receive from the Almighty:<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15565d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>]</span></span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>If their children are multiplied, it is for the sword;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and their offspring have not enough to eat.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>Those who survive them the pestilence buries,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and their widows make no lamentation.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>Though they heap up silver like dust,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and pile up clothing like clay—</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>they may pile it up, but the just will wear it,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and the innocent will divide the silver.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>They build their houses like nests,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">like booths made by sentinels of the vineyard.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>They go to bed with wealth, but will do so no more;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">they open their eyes, and it is gone.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>Terrors overtake them like a flood;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">in the night a whirlwind carries them off.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>The east wind lifts them up and they are gone;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">it sweeps them out of their place.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>It<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15574e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote e">e</a>]</span> hurls at them without pity;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">they flee from its<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15574f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote f">f</a>]</span> power in headlong flight.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>It<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15575g" title="See footnote g">g</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote g">g</a>]</span> claps its<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15575h" title="See footnote h">h</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote h">h</a>]</span> hands at them,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and hisses at them from its<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15575i" title="See footnote i">i</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote i">i</a>]</span> place.</span></span></p></div> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 27:2">Job 27:2</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Traditional rendering of Heb <i>Shaddai</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 27:10">Job 27:10</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Traditional rendering of Heb <i>Shaddai</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 27:11">Job 27:11</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Traditional rendering of Heb <i>Shaddai</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 27:13">Job 27:13</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Traditional rendering of Heb <i>Shaddai</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 27:22">Job 27:22</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>He</i> (that is God)</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 27:22">Job 27:22</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>his</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 27:23">Job 27:23</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>He</i> (that is God)</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 27:23">Job 27:23</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>his</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 27:23">Job 27:23</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>his</i></span></li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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