Job Continues: I Will Maintain My Integrity

¹And Job again rtook up his discourse, and said:

²“As God lives, who has staken away my right,

and the Almighty, who has tmade my soul bitter,

³as long as my breath is in me,

and uthe spirit of God is in my nostrils,

⁴my lips will not speak vfalsehood,

and my tongue will not utter vdeceit.

⁵Far be it from me to say that you are right;

till I die I will not put away my wintegrity from me.

⁶I xhold fast my righteousness and will not let it go;

my heart does not yreproach me for any of my days.

⁷“Let my enemy be as the wicked,

and let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous.

⁸zFor what is the hope of the godless awhen God cuts him off,

when God takes away his life?

⁹bWill God hear his cry

when distress comes upon him?

¹⁰Will he ctake delight in the Almighty?

Will he call upon God at all times?

¹¹I will teach you concerning the hand of God;

dwhat is with the Almighty I will not conceal.

¹²Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves;

why then have you become altogether vain?

¹³e“This is the portion of a wicked man with God,

and the heritage that foppressors receive from the Almighty:

¹⁴If his gchildren are multiplied, it is for hthe sword,

and his descendants have not enough bread.

¹⁵Those who survive him the pestilence buries,

and his iwidows do not weep.

¹⁶Though he jheap up silver like dust,

and pile up clothing like clay,

¹⁷he may pile it up, but the righteous will wear it,

and kthe innocent will divide the silver.

¹⁸He builds his lhouse like a moth's,

like ma booth that na watchman makes.

¹⁹He goes to bed rich, but will odo so no more;

he opens his eyes, and phis wealth is gone.

²⁰qTerrors overtake him like ra flood;

in the night a whirlwind scarries him off.

²¹tThe east wind lifts him up and he is gone;

it usweeps him out of his place.

²²It1 hurls at him vwithout pity;

he flees from its2 power in headlong flight.

²³It wclaps its hands at him

and xhisses at him from its place.