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Job 27:17 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" he may prepare it, but the just will put it on, and the innocent will divide the silver. "

Job 27:17

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15 Those who remain of him will be buried in death. His widows will make no lamentation.

16 Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare clothing as the clay;

17 he may prepare it, but the just will put it on, and the innocent will divide the silver.

18 He builds his house as the moth, as a booth which the watchman makes.

19 He lies down rich, but he will not do so again. He opens his eyes, and he is not.

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From This Chapter

Job 27:1

"Job again took up his parable, and said,"

Job 27:2

"“As God lives, who has taken away my right, the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter"

Job 27:3

"(for the length of my life is still in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils);"

Job 27:4

"surely my lips will not speak unrighteousness, neither will my tongue utter deceit."

Job 27:5

"Far be it from me that I should justify you. Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me."

Job 27:6

"I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart will not reproach me so long as I live."

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