Daily Bible CEV September 12 Verses

Job Continues

I Am Desperate

Job 27 Job said:

²I am desperate because God All-Powerful

refuses to do what is right.

As surely as God lives, ³and while he gives me breath,

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I will tell only the truth.

⁵Until the day I die, I will refuse to do wrong

by saying you are right,

⁶because each day my conscience

agrees that I am innocent.

⁷I pray that my enemies will suffer no less

than the wicked.

⁸Such people are hopeless, and God All-Powerful

will cut them down, ⁹without listening

when they beg for mercy.

¹⁰And that is what God should do,

because they don't like him or ever pray.

¹¹Now I will explain in detail what God All-Powerful does.

¹²All of you have seen these things for yourselves.

So you have no excuse.

How God Treats the Wicked

¹³Here is how God All-Powerful

treats those who are wicked and brutal.

¹⁴They may have many children, but most of them

will go hungry or suffer a violent death.

¹⁵Others will die of disease,

and their widows won't be able to weep.

¹⁶The wicked may collect riches and clothes in abundance

as easily as clay.

¹⁷But God's people will wear clothes taken from them

and divide up their riches.

¹⁸No homes built by the wicked will outlast a cocoon

or a shack.

¹⁹Those sinners may go to bed rich,

but they will wake up poor.

²⁰Terror will strike at night like a flood or a storm.

²¹Then a scorching wind will sweep them away

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without showing mercy, as they try to escape.

²³At last, the wind will celebrate

because they are gone.

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