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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1And Job took up his discourse again: |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2"As surely as God lives, who has denied me justice, the Almighty, who has made my life bitter-- |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3for while my spirit is still in me, and the breath from God is in my nostrils, |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4my lips will not speak wickedness, and my tongue will whisper no deceit. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5I will never declare that you three are in the right; until I die, I will not set aside my integrity! |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6I will maintain my righteousness and never let it go; my conscience will not reproach me for as long as I live. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7"May my enemy be like the wicked, my adversary like the unrighteous. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8For what hope does the godless have when he is cut off, when God takes away his life? |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Does God listen to his cry when distress overtakes him? |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Will he find delight in the Almighty? Will he call out to God at all times? |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11I will teach you about the power of God; What is on the Almighty's mind I will not conceal. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12If you yourselves have all seen this, Why in the world do you continue this meaningless talk? |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13This is the portion of the wicked man allotted by God, the inheritance that evildoers receive from the Almighty. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14If his children increase--it is for the sword! His offspring never have enough to eat. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Those who survive him are buried by the plague, and their widows do not mourn for them. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16If he piles up silver like dust and stores up clothing like mounds of clay, |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17what he stores up a righteous man will wear, and an innocent man will inherit his silver. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18The house he builds is as fragile as a moth's cocoon, like a hut that a watchman has made. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19He goes to bed wealthy, but will do so no more. When he opens his eyes, it is all gone. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Terrors overwhelm him like a flood; at night a whirlwind carries him off. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22It hurls itself against him without pity as he flees headlong from its power. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23It claps its hands at him in derision and hisses him away from his place. |
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