- 1. Job again took up his parable, and said,
- 2. "As God lives, who has taken away my right, the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter.
- 3. (For the length of my life is still in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils);
- 4. surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, neither shall my tongue utter deceit.
- 5. Far be it from me that I should justify you. Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.
- 6. I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.
- 7. "Let my enemy be as the wicked. Let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous.
- 8. For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?
- 9. Will God hear his cry when trouble comes on him?
- 10. Will he delight himself in the Almighty, and call on God at all times?
- 11. I will teach you about the hand of God. That which is with the Almighty will I not conceal.
- 12. Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves; why then have you become altogether vain?
- 13. "This is the portion of a wicked man with God, the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty.
- 14. If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword. His offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
- 15. Those who remain of him shall be buried in death. His widows shall 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 shall put it on, and the innocent shall 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 shall not do so again. He opens his eyes, and he is not.
- 20. Terrors overtake him like waters. A storm steals him away in the night.
- 21. The east wind carries him away, and he departs. It sweeps him out of his place.
- 22. For it hurls at him, and does not spare, as he flees away from his hand.
- 23. Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.
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