Job 27:1-2

New Catholic Bible

I Maintain the Rightness of My Cause.^[a] ¹Job then continued his discourse:

²“I swear by the living God who has denied me justice,
and by the Almighty who has filled my soul with bitterness,

Job 27:1 Job gives a moving and energetic protest of his innocence, calling God as a witness. Going beyond the framework of the protest, the text describes the silence of God with which the man who has turned away from him will one day have to cope.

Job 27:1-2

New International Version

27 And Job continued his discourse:^(A)

²“As surely as God lives, who has denied me justice,^(B)
the Almighty,^(C) who has made my life bitter,^(D)

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