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 shall not speak unrighteousness,
• neither shall 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 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.

• 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.
• That which is with the Almighty will I not conceal.

• 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 shall not be satisfied with bread.

• ¹⁵Those who remain of him shall be buried in death.
• His widows shall make no lamentation.

• 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 the moth,
• as a booth which the watchman makes.

• ¹⁹He lies down rich, but he shall 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 shall clap their hands at him,
• and shall hiss him out of his place.