### American Standard Version

Job 26

## The Book of Job

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| # Chapter 27
#### 1 | And Job again took up his parable, and said,
#### 2 | As God liveth, who hath taken away my right, And the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul:
#### 3 | (For my life is yet whole in me, And the spirit of God is in my nostrils);
#### 4 | Surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, Neither shall my tongue utter deceit.
#### 5 | Far be it from me that I should justify you: Till I die I will not put away mine integrity from me.
#### 6 | My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: My heart shall not reproach [me] so long as I live.
#### 7 | Let mine enemy be as the wicked, And let him that riseth up against me be as the unrighteous.
#### 8 | For what is the hope of the godless, though he get him gain, When God taketh away his soul?
#### 9 | Will God hear his cry, When trouble cometh upon him?
#### 10 | Will he delight himself in the Almighty, And call upon God at all times?
#### 11 | I will teach you concerning the hand of God; That which is with the Almighty will I not conceal.
#### 12 | Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; Why then are ye become altogether vain?
#### 13 | This is the portion of a wicked man with God, And the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty:
#### 14 | If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword; And his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
#### 15 | Those that remain of him shall be buried in death, And his widows shall make no lamentation.
#### 16 | Though he 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 booth which the keeper maketh.
#### 19 | He lieth down rich, but he shall not be gathered [to his fathers]; He openeth his eyes, and he is not.
#### 20 | Terrors overtake him like waters; A tempest stealeth him away in the night.
#### 21 | The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth; And it sweepeth him out of his place.
#### 22 | For [God] shall hurl at him, and not spare: He would fain flee out of his hand.
#### 23 | Men shall clap their hands at him, And shall hiss him out of his place.

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