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Job 27 (CEV)

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¹ Job said: ² I am desperate because God All-Powerful refuses to do what is right. As surely as God lives, ³ and while he gives me breath, ⁴ I will tell only the truth. ⁵ Until the day I die, I will refuse to do wrong by saying you are right, ⁶ because each day my conscience agrees that I am innocent. ⁷ I pray that my enemies will suffer no less than the wicked. ⁸ Such people are hopeless, and God All-Powerful will cut them down, ⁹ without listening when they beg for mercy. ¹⁰ And that is what God should do, because they don't like him or ever pray. ¹¹ Now I will explain in detail what God All-Powerful does. ¹² All of you have seen these things for yourselves. So you have no excuse. ¹³ Here is how God All-Powerful treats those who are wicked and brutal. ¹⁴ They may have many children, but most of them will go hungry or suffer a violent death. ¹⁵ Others will die of disease, and their widows won't be able to weep. ¹⁶ The wicked may collect riches and clothes in abundance as easily as clay. ¹⁷ But God's people will wear clothes taken from them and divide up their riches. ¹⁸ No homes built by the wicked will outlast a cocoon or a shack. ¹⁹ Those sinners may go to bed rich, but they will wake up poor. ²⁰ Terror will strike at night like a flood or a storm. ²¹ Then a scorching wind will sweep them away ²² without showing mercy, as they try to escape. ²³ At last, the wind will celebrate because they are gone.