13 This is the [a]portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of tyrants, which they shall receive of the Almighty.

14 If his children be in great number, the sword shall destroy them, and his posterity shall not be satisfied with bread.

15 His remnant shall be buried in death, and his widows [b]shall not weep.

16 Though he should 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 [c]moth, and as a lodge that the watchman maketh.

19 When the rich man sleepeth, [d]he shall not be gathered to his fathers: they opened their eyes, and he was gone.

20 Terrors shall take him as waters, and a tempest shall carry him away by night.

21 The East wind shall take him away, and he shall depart: and it shall hurl him out of his place.

22 And God shall cast upon him and not spare, though he would fain flee out of his hand.

23 Every man shall clap their hands at him, and hiss at him out of their place.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 27:13 Thus will God order the wicked, and punish him even unto his posterity.
  2. Job 27:15 None shall lament him.
  3. Job 27:18 Which breedeth in another man’s possession or garment, but is soon shaken out.
  4. Job 27:19 He meaneth, that the wicked tyrants shall not have a quiet death, nor be buried honorably.

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