Moff JOB Chapter 27

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27 Then Eyob again replied:

“As God lives, who has wronged me,

as the Almighty lives, who has embittered me,

I swear I speak the truth,

no lie upon my lips,

when I maintain (by God!) that you are wrong,

when I assert that I am innocent!

For I am sound and sane;

God’s breath is in me.

I hold unflinching to my innocence;

not for one hour need I reproach myself.

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You have all seen this for yourselves;

then why vapour so vainly?”

7 Zophar the Minsean replied:

“May my worst enemy fare like the wicked,

may my foe die the death of the unjust!

For what hope has a godless man,

when God demands his soul?

Will God ever listen to his cry,

when woe befalls him?

Will he obtain his wish from 10 the Almighty?

Will the Almighty heed him when he calls?

I can show you how God’s n power works,

I will disclose the dealings of the Almighty.

Here is what God awards an 13 evil man,

what the Almighty bestows upon a tyrant:

if his children grow up, some fall by the sword,

some starve;

his sons are victims of the plague,

their widows cannot wail for them;

he may store silver up like dust,

and prepare robes abundant as the clay;

he may prepare them, but the just shall wear them,

and good men shall divide his silver;

the house he builds is like a spider’s,

flimsy as a watchman’s shelter.

He lies down rich--it is the end!

he opens his eyes, to find that all is over!

Terrors seize him in the day,

a tempest carries him off by night;

an east wind whirls him clean away,

sweeping him from his site.

God pelts him without pity,

though fain he would escape;

God openly derides him,

and hisses scorn at him from heaven.

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