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📚✭And Job continued his discourse and said, 2 📚✭“As God lives, who has taken justice away from me, the Almighty, who has brought bitterness to my soul,
3 📚As long as my life✭ is in me, and the breath✭ of God is in my nostrils,
4 📚✭My lips will not speak wickedness, and my tongue will not utter deceit.
5 📚Far be it from me to admit that you are right. I will not put away my integrity from me until I die.
6 📚✭I will hold fast my righteousness, and not let it go. My heart will not reproach me as long as I live.
7 📚“May my enemy be like the wicked, and he who attacks me like the unrighteous.
8 📚✭For what is the hope of the hypocrite✭, even though he gains much, if God takes away his life?
9 📚Will God hear his cry when trouble comes on him?
10 📚Will he have delight in the Almighty? Will he always call on God?
11 📚✭“I will teach you about the hand of God. I will not conceal how it is with the Almighty.
12 📚Look, all of you have seen this. Why then is your talk so empty?
13 📚“This is what a wicked man will get from God, and the inheritance oppressors will receive from the Almighty:
14 📚If his children increase in number, it is for the sword, and his offspring will not have enough bread.
15 📚Those who are left to him will be buried in death, and his widow will not weep.
16 📚Though he heaps up silver like dust, and accumulates garments as abundant as clay,
17 📚He may accumulate them, but the righteous will wear them, and the innocent will divide the silver.
18 📚The house he builds is as fragile as a moth, as a booth the watchman makes.
19 📚The rich man will lie down, but not again. He opens his eyes, and he is no more.
20 📚Terrors overtake him like a flood; a tempest snatches him away in the night.
21 📚The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; the storm sweeps him from his place.
22 📚It hurls itself against him and does not spare. He makes every attempt to flee from its power.
23 📚It scornfully claps its hands at him, and hisses him out of his place.