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Job 27 :: New Living Translation (NLT)

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Job’s Final Speech

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:1 - Job continued speaking:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:2 - “I vow by the living God, who has taken away my rights,
by the Almighty who has embittered my soul—

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:3 - As long as I live,
while I have breath from God,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:4 - my lips will speak no evil,
and my tongue will speak no lies.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:5 - I will never concede that you are right;
I will defend my integrity until I die.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:6 - I will maintain my innocence without wavering.
My conscience is clear for as long as I live.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:7 - “May my enemy be punished like the wicked,
my adversary like those who do evil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:8 - For what hope do the godless have when God cuts them off
and takes away their life?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:9 - Will God listen to their cry
when trouble comes upon them?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:10 - Can they take delight in the Almighty?
Can they call to God at any time?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:11 - I will teach you about God’s power.
I will not conceal anything concerning the Almighty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:12 - But you have seen all this,
yet you say all these useless things to me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:13 - “This is what the wicked will receive from God;
this is their inheritance from the Almighty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:14 - They may have many children,
but the children will die in war or starve to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:15 - Those who survive will die of a plague,
and not even their widows will mourn them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:16 - “Evil people may have piles of money
and may store away mounds of clothing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:17 - But the righteous will wear that clothing,
and the innocent will divide that money.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:18 - The wicked build houses as fragile as a spider’s web,[fn]
as flimsy as a shelter made of branches.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:19 - The wicked go to bed rich
but wake to find that all their wealth is gone.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:20 - Terror overwhelms them like a flood,
and they are blown away in the storms of the night.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:21 - The east wind carries them away, and they are gone.
It sweeps them away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:22 - It whirls down on them without mercy.
They struggle to flee from its power.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:23 - But everyone jeers at them
and mocks them.
See the NLT Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
NLT Footnotes
As in Greek and Syriac versions (see also 8:14); Hebrew reads a moth.
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Job Chapter 27 — Additional Translations:

King James Version New King James Version New International Version English Standard Version Christian Standard Bible New American Standard Bible 2020 New American Standard Bible 1995 Legacy Standard Bible Amplified Bible New English Translation Revised Standard Version American Standard Version Young's Literal Translation Darby Translation Webster's Bible Hebrew Names Version Latin Vulgate Westminster Leningrad Codex Septuagint Smith Van Dyck Arabic Bible Open New Arabic Version Brenton's English Septuagint Reina Valera 1909 Reina-Valera 1960 Bible in Basic English Chinese Traditional Union Espanol Moderno Korean Holy Bible Louis Segond German Luther Russian Synodal Translation Sagradas Escrituras