[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 will not speak unrighteousness, neither will 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 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.
[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. I will not conceal that which is with the Almighty.
[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 will not be satisfied with bread.
[15] Those who remain of him will be buried in death. His widows will 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 will put it on, and the innocent will 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 will 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 will clap their hands at him, and will hiss him out of his place.