Immerse: Poets Full Volume - Flipbook - Page 315
27:10–28:4
Job
Can they take delight in the Almighty?
Can they call to God at any time?
I will teach you about God’s power.
I will not conceal anything concerning the Almighty.
But you have seen all this,
yet you say all these useless things to me.
“This is what the wicked will receive from God;
this is their inheritance from the Almighty.
They may have many children,
but the children will die in war or starve to death.
Those who survive will die of a plague,
and not even their widows will mourn them.
“Evil people may have piles of money
and may store away mounds of clothing.
But the righteous will wear that clothing,
and the innocent will divide that money.
The wicked build houses as fragile as a spider’s web,
as flimsy as a shelter made of branches.
The wicked go to bed rich
but wake to find that all their wealth is gone.
Terror overwhelms them like a flood,
and they are blown away in the storms of the night.
The east wind carries them away, and they are gone.
It sweeps them away.
It whirls down on them without mercy.
They struggle to flee from its power.
But everyone jeers at them
and mocks them.
“People know where to mine silver
and how to refine gold.
They know where to dig iron from the earth
and how to smelt copper from rock.
They know how to shine light in the darkness
and explore the farthest regions of the earth
as they search in the dark for ore.
They sink a mine shaft into the earth
far from where anyone lives.
They descend on ropes, swinging back and forth.
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