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- ¶ MOREOVER Job continued his parable, and said,
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- As God lives, who has wronged my judgment, and the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter;
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- As long as my soul is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;
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- My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.
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- God forbid that I should do evil, till I die I will not remove my innocence from me.
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- My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go;
my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.
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- ¶ Let my enemy be as the ungodly, and he that hates me as the wicked.
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- For though he has accumulated riches, what is the hope of the godless at the time when God takes away his life?
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- For God will not hear his prayer when trouble comes upon him.
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- But if he should trust in the Almighty, and always call upon God, God will hear him and answer him.
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- ¶ But as for you, I will deliver you into the hand of God;
so that your works may not be hid from him.
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- Behold, all of you have seen it;
why then do you boast in vain?
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- This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive from the Almighty.
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- If their children are multiplied, it is for the sword;
and their offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
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- Those who remain of them shall be buried in death;
and their widows shall not weep over them.
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- Though they heap up silver like dust and accumulate clothes like clay,
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- They may pile them up, yet the righteous shall wear them, and shall also divide their silver.
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- For the wicked has built his house upon a spider’s web, and like a booth he had made his shelter.
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- The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not rise again;
he opens his eyes, and he is gone.
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- Terrors overtake him like swift water, and like a tempest that rages.
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- The east wind shall carry him away in the night, and he is gone;
and shall hurl him out of his place.
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- For God shall cast him out without pity, and he cannot escape out of his hand.
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- He shall smite him with his hand, and shall hiss against him from his dwelling place.
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