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13 “This is what the wicked will receive from God;
    this is their inheritance from the Almighty.
14 They may have many children,
    but the children will die in war or starve to death.
15 Those who survive will die of a plague,
    and not even their widows will mourn them.

16 “Evil people may have piles of money
    and may store away mounds of clothing.
17 But the righteous will wear that clothing,
    and the innocent will divide that money.
18 The wicked build houses as fragile as a spider’s web,[a]
    as flimsy as a shelter made of branches.
19 The wicked go to bed rich
    but wake to find that all their wealth is gone.
20 Terror overwhelms them like a flood,
    and they are blown away in the storms of the night.
21 The east wind carries them away, and they are gone.
    It sweeps them away.
22 It whirls down on them without mercy.
    They struggle to flee from its power.
23 But everyone jeers at them
    and mocks them.

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  1. 27:18 As in Greek and Syriac versions (see also 8:14); Hebrew reads a moth.

13 “This is the portion of the wicked with God
    and the heritage that oppressors receive from the Almighty:[a](A)
14 If their children are multiplied, it is for the sword,
    and their offspring have not enough to eat.(B)
15 Those who survive them the pestilence buries,
    and their widows make no lamentation.(C)
16 Though they heap up silver like dust
    and pile up clothing like clay,(D)
17 they may pile it up, but the just will wear it,
    and the innocent will divide the silver.(E)
18 They build their houses like nests,
    like booths made by sentinels of the vineyard.
19 They go to bed with wealth but will do so no more;
    they open their eyes, and it is gone.(F)
20 Terrors overtake them like a flood;
    in the night a whirlwind carries them off.(G)
21 The east wind lifts them up, and they are gone;
    it sweeps them out of their place.(H)
22 It[b] hurls at them without pity;
    they flee from its[c] power in headlong flight.(I)
23 It[d] claps its[e] hands at them
    and hisses at them from its[f] place.(J)

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Footnotes

  1. 27.13 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai
  2. 27.22 Or He (that is, God)
  3. 27.22 Or his
  4. 27.23 Or He (that is, God)
  5. 27.23 Or his
  6. 27.23 Or his