Job protests his integrity, Job 27:1; and his dread of hypocrisy, Job 27:7. Shows the miserable end of the wicked, notwithstanding their long prosperity, Job 27:11.
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JOB 25-27. offer a difficult critical problem. The phenomena which
excite attention are these: (_a_) Bildad's speech is unusually short;
(_b_) Job's reply contains a section (Job 26:5) very like Bilda...
Job protests his innocence
The third speaker, Zophar, fails to come forward; and Job, after a
pause, resumes his discourse. This discourse is necessary in order to
give this third cycle of speeches t...
TODAY'S ENGLISH VERSION
1-2 I swear by the living Almighty God,
who refuses me justice and makes my life bitter
3 as long as God gives me breath
4 my lips will never say anything evil,
and my tong...
INTRODUCTION TO JOB 27
Though Job's friends were become silent, and dropped the controversy
with him, he still continued his discourse in this and the four
following Chapter s; in which he asserts hi...