¹Moreover Iyov [hated] continued his parable, and said,

²[As] God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] lives, [who] has taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, [who] has vexed my soul;

³All the while my breath [is] in me, and the spirit of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] [is] in my nostrils;

⁴My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.

⁵God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove my integrity from me.

⁶My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach (disgrace; shame) [me] so long as I live.

⁷Let my enemy be as the wicked, and he that rises up against me as the unrighteous.

⁸For what [is] the hope of the hypocrite, though he has gained, when God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] takes away his soul?

⁹Will God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] hear his cry when trouble comes upon him?

¹⁰Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] ?

¹¹I will teach you by the hand of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] : [that] which [is] with the Almighty will I not conceal.

¹²Behold, all you2f yourselves have seen [it] ; why then are you2f thus altogether vain?

¹³This [is] the portion of a wicked man with God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] , and the heritage of oppressors, [which] they shall receive of the Almighty.

¹⁴If his children be multiplied, [it is] for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

¹⁵Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep.

¹⁶Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare clothing as the clay;

¹⁷He may prepare [it] , but the just shall put [it] on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.

¹⁸He builds his house as a moth, and as a booth [that] the keeper makes.

¹⁹The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he opens his eyes, and he [is] not.

²⁰Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest steals him away in the night.

²¹The east wind carries him away, and he departs: and as a storm hurls him out of his place.

²²For [God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] ] shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain (earnestly want to or long to; gladly) flee out of his hand.

²³[Men] shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.