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Job 27:12-20 New English Translation (NET)

12. If you yourselves have all seen this,Why in the world do you continue this meaningless talk?

13. This is the portion of the wicked man allotted by God, the inheritance that evildoers receive from the Almighty.

14. If his children increase – it is for the sword!His offspring never have enough to eat.

15. Those who survive him are buried by the plague,and their widows do not mourn for them.

16. If he piles up silver like dustand stores up clothing like mounds of clay,

17. what he stores up a righteous man will wear,and an innocent man will inherit his silver.

18. The house he builds is as fragile as a moth’s cocoon,like a hut that a watchman has made.

19. He goes to bed wealthy, but will do so no more.When he opens his eyes, it is all gone.

20. Terrors overwhelm him like a flood;at night a whirlwind carries him off.

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