Old Testament · Poetry and wisdom
Job chapter 27
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Job and said: — the God who has ,
, who has left my life tasting of nothing but bitterness —as long as there is any breath left in me,
as long as is still in my nose,my lips will not say ,
and my tongue will not mutter a lie.I will never .
Until I stop breathing I will not let go of .I have hold of and I am not letting go.
for a single day I have lived.Let my enemy end up ,
and whoever stands against me, the one in the wrong.What hope has ,
when God cuts him off and ?Will God sit and listen to him
when the trouble finally comes down on him?Will he in the Almighty?
Will he call on God whenever he feels like it?I will teach the three of you about .
What the Almighty is up to, I am not going to hide from you.Look — every one of you has seen all this for yourselves.
So why do you keep ?So from God,
the inheritance collect from the Almighty:If his children multiply, .
His descendants will never have enough bread. will bury whatever is left of him,
and .Let him pile silver up like dirt
and like wet clay —he stacks it, and ends up wearing it.
The innocent split the silver between them.He built his house .
He built it like for one season.He lies down rich, .
He opens his eyes, and none of it is there. catches up with him like floodwater.
In the night a storm carries him off. lifts him and he is gone.
It sweeps him clean .It throws itself at him and spares him nothing.
He runs headlong to get .It .
It of the place where he used to stand.