Job 27

Job 27:1 Job added to his discourse, and said:

Job 27:2 As God lives, who has deprived me of justice, and the Almighty who has made my throat bitter,

Job 27:3 as long as my breathing is still in me and the breath from God remains in my nostrils,

Job 27:4 my lips will not speak unfairly, and my tongue will not utter deceit.

Job 27:5 I will never affirm that you are right. I will maintain my integrity until I die.

Job 27:6 I will cling to my righteousness and never let it go. My conscience will not accuse me as long as I live!

Job 27:7 May my enemy be like the wicked and my opponent like the unjust.

Job 27:8 Because what hope does the godless person have when he is cut off, when God silences his throat?

Job 27:9 Will God hear his cry when distress comes on him?

Job 27:10 Will he delight in the Almighty? Will he call on God always?

Job 27:11 I will teach you about God’s power and not conceal what the Almighty has planned.

Job 27:12 All of you have seen this for yourselves, why do you keep up this empty talk?

Job 27:13 This is a wicked man’s lot from God, the inheritance the ruthless receive from the Almighty.

Job 27:14 Even if his children increase, they are destined for the sword; his descendants will never have enough food.

Job 27:15 Those who survive him will be buried by the plague, yet their widows will not weep for them.

Job 27:16 Though he piles up silver like dust and heaps up fine clothing like clay —

Job 27:17 he may heap it up, but the righteous will wear it, and the innocent will divide up his silver.

Job 27:18 The house he built is like a moth’s cocoon or a shelter set up by a watchman.

Job 27:19 He lies down wealthy but will do so no more; when he opens his eyes, it is gone.

Job 27:20 Terrors overtake him like a flood; a storm wind sweeps him away at night.

Job 27:21 An east wind picks him up, and he is gone; it carries him away from his place.

Job 27:22 It blasts at him without mercy, while he flees desperately from its force.

Job 27:23 It claps its hands at him and scoffs at him from its place.

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Job 26

Job 26:1 Then Job answered and said:

Job 26:2 See how you have helped the powerless and delivered the weak arm!

Job 26:3 See how you have counseled the unwise and abundantly provided insight!

Job 26:4 With whom did you speak these words? Whose breathing came out of your mouth?

Job 26:5 The departed spirits tremble beneath the waters and all that inhabit them.

Job 26:6 Sheol is naked in God’s presence, and Abaddon has no covering.

Job 26:7 He sends the northern skies over empty space; he hangs the land on nothing.

Job 26:8 He wraps up the water in his clouds, yet the clouds do not burst beneath their weight.

Job 26:9 He obscures the view of his throne, spreading his cloud over it.

Job 26:10 He laid out the horizon on the surface of the water at the boundary between light and darkness.

Job 26:11 The pillars that hold up the sky tremble, astounded at his rebuke.

Job 26:12 By his power, he struck the sea, and by his understanding, he crushed Rahab.

Job 26:13 By his breath the sky gained its beauty; his hand pierced the fleeing serpent.

Job 26:14 These are but the fringes of his ways; how faint is the word we hear of him! Who can understand his mighty thunder?

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Job 25

Job 25:1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:

Job 25:2 Dominion and terror belong to him, the one who establishes harmony in his heights.

Job 25:3 Can his troops be numbered? Does his light not shine on everyone?

Job 25:4 How can a mortal be justified before God? How can one born of a woman be pure?

Job 25:5 If even the moon does not shine and the stars are not pure in his sight,

Job 25:6 how much less a mortal, who is a maggot, a son of Adam, who is a worm!

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Job 24

Job 24:1 Why does the Almighty not keep times for judgment? Why do those who know him never see his days?

Job 24:2 The wicked displace boundary markers. They steal a flock and provide pasture for it.

Job 24:3 They drive away the donkey owned by the fatherless and take the widow’s ox as collateral.

Job 24:4 They push the needy off the road; the poor of the land are forced into hiding.

Job 24:5 Like wild donkeys in the wilderness, the poor go out to their task of foraging for food; the desert provides bread for their children.

Job 24:6 They gather their fodder in the field and glean the vineyards of the wicked.

Job 24:7 Without clothing, they spend the night naked, having no covering against the cold.

Job 24:8 Drenched by mountain rains, they huddle against the rocks, shelterless.

Job 24:9 The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized as collateral.

Job 24:10 Without clothing, they wander about naked. They carry sheaves but go hungry.

Job 24:11 They crush olives in their presses; they tread the winepresses but go thirsty.

Job 24:12 From the city, men groan; the pierced throats cry for help, yet God pays no attention to this crime.

Job 24:13 The wicked are those who rebel against the light. They do not recognize its ways or stay on its paths.

Job 24:14 The murderer rises at dawn to kill the poor and needy, and by night he becomes a thief.

Job 24:15 The adulterer’s eye watches for twilight, thinking, “No eye will see me,” and he covers his face.

Job 24:16 In the dark they break into houses; by day they lock themselves in, never experiencing the light.

Job 24:17 For the morning is like darkness to them. Surely, they are familiar with the terrors of darkness!

Job 24:18 They float on the surface of the water. Their section of the ground is cursed, so that they never go to their vineyards.

Job 24:19 As dry ground and heat snatch away the melted snow, so Sheol steals those who have sinned.

Job 24:20 The womb forgets them; worms feed on them; they are remembered no more. That is how injustice is broken like a tree.

Job 24:21 They prey on the childless woman who is unable to conceive, and do not deal kindly with the widow.

Job 24:22 Yet God drags away the mighty by his power; when he rises against them, they have no assurance of life.

Job 24:23 He gives them a sense of security so that they can rely on it, but his eyes watch over their ways.

Job 24:24 They are exalted for a moment, then gone; they are brought low and shrivel up like everything else. They wither like heads of grain.

Job 24:25 If this is not true, then who can prove me a liar and show that my speech is worthless?

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Job 23

Job 23:1 Then Job answered and said:

Job 23:2 My complaint is bitter today as well. His hand is heavy despite my groaning.

Job 23:3 If only I knew how to find him, so that I could go to his throne.

Job 23:4 I would plead my case before him and fill my mouth with arguments.

Job 23:5 I would learn how he would answer me, and understand what he would say to me.

Job 23:6 Would he prosecute me forcefully? No, he would certainly pay attention to me.

Job 23:7 There an upright man could reason with him, and I would escape from my endless judge.

Job 23:8 If I go east, he is not there, and if I go west, I cannot perceive him.

Job 23:9 When he is at work to the north, I cannot see him; when he turns south, I cannot find him.

Job 23:10 Yet he knows the way I have taken; when he has tested me, I will emerge as pure gold.

Job 23:11 My feet have followed in his tracks; I have kept to his way and not turned aside.

Job 23:12 I have not departed from the commands of his lips; I have treasured the words from his mouth more than my daily food.

Job 23:13 But he is unchangeable; who can oppose him? He does what his throat desires.

Job 23:14 He will certainly accomplish what he has decreed for me, and he has many more things like these in mind.

Job 23:15 Therefore, I am terrified in his presence; when I consider this, I am afraid of him.

Job 23:16 God has made my heart faint; the Almighty has terrified me.

Job 23:17 Yet I am not destroyed by the darkness, by the thick darkness that covers my face.

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