026:011 The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his rebuke.
026:012 He stirs up the sea with his power, and by his understanding
he strikes through Rahab.
026:013 By his Spirit the heavens are garnished. His hand has pierced
the swift serpent.
026:014 Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways.
How small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder
of his power who can understand?"
027:001 Job again took up his parable, and said,
027:002 "As God lives, who has taken away my right, the Almighty,
who has made my soul bitter.
027:003 (For the length of my life is still in me, and the spirit
of God is in my nostrils);
027:004 surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, neither shall
my tongue utter deceit.
027:005 Far be it from me that I should justify you. Until I die I
will not put away my integrity from me.
027:006 I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go.
My heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.
027:007 "Let my enemy be as the wicked. Let him who rises up against
me be as the unrighteous.
027:008 For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off,
when God takes away his life?
027:009 Will God hear his cry when trouble comes on him?
027:010 Will he delight himself in the Almighty, and call on God
at all times?
027:011 I will teach you about the hand of God. That which is with
the Almighty will I not conceal.
027:012 Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves; why then have you
become altogether vain?
027:013 "This is the portion of a wicked man with God, the heritage
of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty.
027:014 If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword.
His offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
027:015 Those who remain of him shall be buried in death.
His widows shall make no lamentation.
027:016 Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare clothing
as the clay;
027:017 he may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent
shall divide the silver.
027:018 He builds his house as the moth, as a booth which the watchman makes.
027:019 He lies down rich, but he shall not do so again.
He opens his eyes, and he is not.
027:020 Terrors overtake him like waters. A storm steals him away
in the night.
027:021 The east wind carries him away, and he departs.
It sweeps him out of his place.
027:022 For it hurls at him, and does not spare, as he flees away
from his hand.
027:023 Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out
of his place.
028:001 "Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold
which they refine.
028:002 Iron is taken out of the earth, and copper is smelted out
of the ore.
028:003 Man sets an end to darkness, and searches out, to the furthest bound,
the stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.
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