Job 27
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Job 27:13-23

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

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

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

16If he piles up silver like dust and stores up clothing like mounds of clay,

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

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

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

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

21The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.

22It hurls itself against him without pity as he flees headlong from its power.

23It claps its hands at him in derision and hisses him away from his place.

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