¹Job 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);

⁴surely my lips will not speak unrighteousness ,

neither will my tongue utter deceit .

⁵Far be it from me that I should justify you .

Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me .

⁶I hold fast to my righteousness , and will not let it go .

My heart will 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 .

⁸For what is the hope of the godless , when he is cut off ,

when God takes away his life ?

⁹Will God hear his cry when trouble comes on him ?

¹⁰Will he delight himself in the Almighty ,

and call on God at all times ?

¹¹I will teach you about the hand of God .

I will not conceal that which is with the Almighty .

¹²Behold , 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 .

¹⁴If his children are multiplied , it is for the sword .

His offspring will not be satisfied with bread .

¹⁵Those who remain of him will be buried in death .

His widows will make no lamentation .

¹⁶Though he heap up silver as the dust ,

and prepare clothing as the clay ;

¹⁷he may prepare it , but the just will put it on ,

and the innocent will divide the silver .

¹⁸He builds his house as the moth ,

as a booth which the watchman makes .

¹⁹He lies down rich , but he will not do so again.

He opens his eyes , and he is not .

²⁰Terrors overtake him like waters .

A storm steals him away in the night .

²¹The east wind carries him away , and he departs.

It sweeps him out of his place .

²²For it hurls at him , and does not spare ,

as he flees away from his hand .

²³Men will clap their hands at him ,

and will hiss him out of his place .