Job
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Job 27:1  Having waited for Zophar, Job now resumed his defense:

Job 27:2  "God-Alive! He's denied me justice! God Almighty! He's ruined my life!

Job 27:3  But for as long as I draw breath, and for as long as God breathes life into me,

Job 27:4  I refuse to say one word that isn't true. I refuse to confess to any charge that's false.

Job 27:5  There is no way I'll ever agree to your accusations. I'll not deny my integrity even if it costs me my life.

Job 27:6  I'm holding fast to my integrity and not loosening my grip-- and, believe me, I'll never regret it.

Job 27:7  "Let my enemy be exposed as wicked! Let my adversary be proven guilty!

Job 27:8  What hope do people without God have when life is cut short? when God puts an end to life?

Job 27:9  Do you think God will listen to their cry for help when disaster hits?

Job 27:10  What interest have they ever shown in the Almighty? Have they ever been known to pray before?

Job 27:11  "I've given you a clear account of God in action, suppressed nothing regarding God Almighty.

Job 27:12  The evidence is right before you. You can all see it for yourselves, so why do you keep talking nonsense?

Job 27:13  "I'll quote your own words back to you: "'This is how God treats the wicked, this is what evil people can expect from God Almighty:

Job 27:14  Their children--all of them--will die violent deaths; they'll never have enough bread to put on the table.

Job 27:15  They'll be wiped out by the plague, and none of the widows will shed a tear when they're gone.

Job 27:16  Even if they make a lot of money and are resplendent in the latest fashions,

Job 27:17  It's the good who will end up wearing the clothes and the decent who will divide up the money.

Job 27:18  They build elaborate houses that won't survive a single winter.

Job 27:19  They go to bed wealthy and wake up poor.

Job 27:20  Terrors pour in on them like flash floods-- a tornado snatches them away in the middle of the night,

Job 27:21  A cyclone sweeps them up--gone! Not a trace of them left, not even a footprint.

Job 27:22  Catastrophes relentlessly pursue them; they run this way and that, but there's no place to hide--

Job 27:23  Pummeled by the weather, blown to kingdom come by the storm.'

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