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title="Job 26">◄</a> Job 27 <a href="../job/28.htm" title="Job 28">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/job/27.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Job’s Final Speech</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/27-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Job continued speaking:</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/27-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“I vow by the living God, who has taken away my rights,</p><p class="line2">by the Almighty who has embittered my soul—</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/27-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>As long as I live,</p><p class="line2">while I have breath from God,</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/27-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>my lips will speak no evil,</p><p class="line2">and my tongue will speak no lies.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/27-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>I will never concede that you are right;</p><p class="line2">I will defend my integrity until I die.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/27-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>I will maintain my innocence without wavering.</p><p class="line2">My conscience is clear for as long as I live.</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/27-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>“May my enemy be punished like the wicked,</p><p class="line2">my adversary like those who do evil.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/27-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>For what hope do the godless have when God cuts them off</p><p class="line2">and takes away their life?</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/27-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Will God listen to their cry</p><p class="line2">when trouble comes upon them?</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/27-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Can they take delight in the Almighty?</p><p class="line2">Can they call to God at any time?</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/27-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>I will teach you about God’s power.</p><p class="line2">I will not conceal anything concerning the Almighty.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/27-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>But you have seen all this,</p><p class="line2">yet you say all these useless things to me.</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/27-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>“This is what the wicked will receive from God;</p><p class="line2">this is their inheritance from the Almighty.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/27-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>They may have many children,</p><p class="line2">but the children will die in war or starve to death.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/27-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Those who survive will die of a plague,</p><p class="line2">and not even their widows will mourn them.</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/27-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>“Evil people may have piles of money</p><p class="line2">and may store away mounds of clothing.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/27-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>But the righteous will wear that clothing,</p><p class="line2">and the innocent will divide that money.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/27-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>The wicked build houses as fragile as a spider’s web,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a></p><p class="line2">as flimsy as a shelter made of branches.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/27-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>The wicked go to bed rich</p><p class="line2">but wake to find that all their wealth is gone.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/27-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Terror overwhelms them like a flood,</p><p class="line2">and they are blown away in the storms of the night.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/27-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>The east wind carries them away, and they are gone.</p><p class="line2">It sweeps them away.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/27-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>It whirls down on them without mercy.</p><p class="line2">They struggle to flee from its power.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/27-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>But everyone jeers at them</p><p class="line2">and mocks them.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">27:18 </span><span class="ft">As in Greek and Syriac versions (see also 8:14); Hebrew reads </span><span class="it">a moth.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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