Verse 1. Job also added, taking up his parable, and said:
Verse 2. As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment, and the Almighty, who hath brought my soul to bitterness,
Verse 3. As long as breath remaineth in me, and the spirit of God in my nostrils,
Verse 4. My lips shall not speak iniquity, neither shall my tongue contrive lying.
Verse 5. God forbid that I should judge you to be just: till I die I will not depart from my innocence.
Verse 6. My justification, which I have begun to hold, I will not forsake: for my heart doth not reprehend me in all my life.
Verse 7. Let my enemy be as the ungodly, and my adversary as the wicked one.
Verse 8. For what is the hope of the hypocrite if through covetousness he take by violence, and God deliver not his soul?
Verse 9. Will God hear his cry, when distress shall come upon him?
Verse 10. Or can he delight himself in the Almighty, and call upon God at all times?
Verse 11. I will teach you by the hand of God, what the Almighty hath, and I will not conceal it.
Verse 12. Behold you all know it, and why do you speak vain things without cause?
Verse 13. This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the inheritance of the violent, which they shall receive of the Almighty.
Verse 14. If his sons be multiplied, they shall be for the sword, and his grandsons shall not be filled with bread.
Verse 15. They that shall remain of him, shall be buried in death, and his widows shall not weep.
Verse 16. If he shall heap together silver as earth, and prepare raiment as clay,
Verse 17. He shall prepare indeed, but the just man shall be clothed with it: and the innocent shall divide the silver.
Verse 18. He hath built his house as a moth, and as a keeper he hath made a booth.
Verse 19. The rich man when he shall sleep shall take away nothing with him: he shall open his eyes and find nothing.
Verse 20. Poverty like water shall take hold on him, a tempest shall oppress him in the night.
Verse 21. A burning wind shall take him up, and carry him away, and as a whirlwind shall snatch him from his place.
Verse 22. And he shall cast upon him, and shall not spare: out of his hand he would willingly flee.
Verse 23. He shall clasp his hands upon him, and shall hiss at him, beholding his place.