My lips will not say anything wicked, and my tongue will not utter lies.

Job 27:1-23
As surely as God lives, who has denied me justice, the Almighty, who has made my life bitter, as long as I have life within me, the breath of God in my nostrils, my lips will not say anything wicked, and my tongue will not utter lies.
I will never admit you are in the right; till I die, I will not deny my integrity.
For what hope have the godless when they are cut off, when God takes away their life? Does God listen to their cry when distress comes upon them?
Here is the fate God allots to the wicked, the heritage a ruthless man receives from the Almighty: However many his children, their fate is the sword; his offspring will never have enough to eat. ...
The house he builds is like a moth’s cocoon, like a hut made by a watchman. He lies down wealthy, but will do so no more; when he opens his eyes, all is gone.
His friends want him to deny his integrity, but Job will not perjure himself. V 13-23 sounds strange coming from Job. This has previously been the argument his friends have put forward, Either Job's thinking has changed, or this passage really belongs to one of the others.
Why?
Job won't deny his integrity, and he would not say any lies. Job insists on his faith in the righteous.
The fate of the evil men, they may have sometimes temporary, but when trouble comes, or disaster comes, they have no hope, they are pass away and no one remembers him. Money, house, heritage are blown away by the wind.
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我們不明白自然界的事，怎麼能夠解釋人的道路呢?
約伯知道知己所行的沒有不義。惡人大禍臨頭時，想禱告神也不會聽。他們也不會禱告，就是他們絕望的時候。約伯說惡人所得的必失去，與前面21章所說的不同。不得安息。他們希望如此報應，但是他又看不到，因此陷入不明白當中。因此他發現人不能明白智慧。
28章述說，智慧如礦，在地面看不到。約伯處在 矛盾中，卻漸漸找到出路，人是找不到智慧。只有神明白智慧的路。就像信仰不是理性的，我們不明白，但是我們可以接受。約伯雖然不明白，但是漸漸也接受，並且持續自己的義。v4我的嘴決不說非義之言；我的舌也不說詭詐之語。My lips will not say anything wicked, and my tongue will not utter lies.
感謝主讓我們明白主要我們明白的。
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How?
Keep the faith to the Lord, only God is my hope, my way, and joy forever.