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[1]Moreover Job proceeded and continued his parable, saying,
[2]The living God hath taken away my judgment: for the Almighty hath put my soul in bitterness.
[3]Yet so long as my breath is in me, and the spirit of God in my nostrils,
[4]My lips surely shall speak no wickedness, and my tongue shall utter no deceit.
[5]God forbid, that I should justify you: until I die, I will never take away mine innocency from myself.
[6]I will keep my righteousness, and will not forsake it: mine heart shall not reprove me of my days.
[7]Mine enemy shall be as the wicked, and he that riseth against me, as the unrighteous.
[8]For what hope hath the hypocrite when he hath heaped up riches, if God take away his soul?
[9]Will God hear his cry, when trouble cometh upon him?
[10]Will he set his delight on the Almighty? Will he call upon God at all times?
[11]I will teach you what is in the hand of God, and I will not conceal that which is with the Almighty.
[12]Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it: why then do you thus vanish in vanity?
[13]This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of tyrants, which they shall receive of the Almighty.
[14]If his children be in great number, the sword shall destroy them, and his posterity shall not be satisfied with bread.
[15]His remnant shall be buried in death, and his widows shall not weep.
[16]Though he should heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay,
[17]He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.
[18]He buildeth his house as the moth, and as a lodge that the watchman maketh.
[19]When the rich man sleepeth, he shall not be gathered to his fathers: they opened their eyes, and he was gone.
[20]Terrors shall take him as waters, and a tempest shall carry him away by night.
[21]The east wind shall take him away, and he shall depart: and it shall hurl him out of his place.
[22]And God shall cast upon him and not spare, though he would fain flee out of his hand.
[23]Every man shall clap their hands at him, and hiss at him out of their place.
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