Job 27

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¹Job continued speaking: ✦ ²“I vow by the living God, who has taken away my rights, by the Almighty who has embittered my soul— ✦ ³As long as I live, while I have breath from God, ✦ ⁴my lips will speak no evil, and my tongue will speak no lies. ✦ ⁵I will never concede that you are right; I will defend my integrity until I die. ✦ ⁶I will maintain my innocence without wavering. My conscience is clear for as long as I live. ✦ ⁷“May my enemy be punished like the wicked, my adversary like those who do evil. ✦ ⁸For what hope do the godless have when God cuts them off and takes away their life? ✦ ⁹Will God listen to their cry when trouble comes upon them? ✦ ¹⁰Can they take delight in the Almighty? Can they call to God at any time? ✦ ¹¹I will teach you about God’s power. I will not conceal anything concerning the Almighty. ✦ ¹²But you have seen all this, yet you say all these useless things to me. ✦ ¹³“This is what the wicked will receive from God; this is their inheritance from the Almighty. ✦ ¹⁴They may have many children, but the children will die in war or starve to death. ✦ ¹⁵Those 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. ✦ ¹⁷But the righteous will wear that clothing, and the innocent will divide that money. ✦ ¹⁸The wicked build houses as fragile as a spider’s web, as flimsy as a shelter made of branches. ✦ ¹⁹The wicked go to bed rich but wake to find that all their wealth is gone. ✦ ²⁰Terror overwhelms them like a flood, and they are blown away in the storms of the night. ✦ ²¹The east wind carries them away, and they are gone. It sweeps them away. ✦ ²²It whirls down on them without mercy. They struggle to flee from its power. ✦ ²³But everyone jeers at them and mocks them. ✦

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Where this chapter connects

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Christ at the center

Job's cry for a mediator who can lay his hand on both God and man, and his confidence that 'my Redeemer lives' and will stand on the earth, reaches forward to Jesus the living Redeemer.

How Job 27 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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