12 Behold, all ye yourselves [a]have seen it: why then do you thus vanish [b]vanity?

13 This is the [c]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.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 27:12 That is, these secret judgments of God, and yet do not understand them.
  2. Job 27:12 Why maintain you then this error?
  3. Job 27:13 Thus will God order the wicked, and punish him even unto his posterity.

12 You have all seen this yourselves.
    Why then this meaningless talk?

13 “Here is the fate God allots to the wicked,
    the heritage a ruthless man receives from the Almighty:(A)
14 However many his children,(B) their fate is the sword;(C)
    his offspring will never have enough to eat.(D)

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