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Job 27 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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CHAPTER 27
Job Maintains His Integrity
The Hypocrite’s Hopelessness
1 Moreover Job continued his discourse, and said:
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2 ​​“As God lives, who has taken away my justice,
​​And the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter,
3 ​​As long as my breath is in me,
​​And the breath of God in my nostrils,
4 ​​My lips will not speak wickedness,
​​Nor my tongue utter deceit.
5 ​​Far be it from me
​​That I should say you are right;
​​Till I die I will not put away my integrity from me.
6 ​​My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go;
​​My heart shall not reproach me as long as I live.
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7 ​​“May my enemy be like the wicked,
​​And he who rises up against me like the unrighteous.
8 ​​For what is the hope of the hypocrite,
​​Though he may gain much,
​​If God takes away his life?
9 ​​Will God hear his cry
​​When trouble comes upon him?
10 ​​Will he delight himself in the Almighty?
​​Will he always call on God?
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11 ​​“I will teach you about the hand of God;
​​What is with the Almighty I will not conceal.
12 ​​Surely all of you have seen it;
​​Why then do you behave with complete nonsense?
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13 ​​“This is the portion of a wicked man with God,
​​And the heritage of oppressors, received from the Almighty:
14 ​​If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword;
​​And his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
15 ​​Those who survive him shall be buried in death,
​​And their[fn] widows shall not weep,
16 ​​Though he heaps up silver like dust,
​​And piles up clothing like clay—
17 ​​He may pile it up, but the just will wear it,
​​And the innocent will divide the silver.
18 ​​He builds his house like a moth,[fn]
​​Like a booth which a watchman makes.
19 ​​The rich man will lie down,
​​But not be gathered up;[fn]
​​He opens his eyes,
​​And he is no more.
20 ​​Terrors overtake him like a flood;
​​A tempest steals him away in the night.
21 ​​The east wind carries him away, and he is gone;
​​It sweeps him out of his place.
22 ​​It hurls against him and does not spare;
​​He flees desperately from its power.
23 ​​Men shall clap their hands at him,
​​And shall hiss him out of his place.
See the NKJV Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
NKJV Footnotes
Literally his
Following Masoretic Text and Vulgate; Septuagint and Syriac read spider (compare 8:14); Targum reads decay.
Following Masoretic Text and Targum; Septuagint and Syriac read But shall not add (that is, do it again); Vulgate reads But take away nothing.
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