1 M oreover Job continued his discourse, and said:

And Job addeth to lift up his simile, and saith: --

2 “ As God lives, who has taken away my justice, And the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter,

God liveth! He turned aside my judgment, And the Mighty -- He made my soul bitter.

3 A s long as my breath is in me, And the breath of God in my nostrils,

For all the while my breath in me, And the spirit of God in my nostrils.

4 M y lips will not speak wickedness, Nor my tongue utter deceit.

My lips do not speak perverseness, And my tongue doth not utter deceit.

5 F ar be it from me That I should say you are right; Till I die I will not put away my integrity from me.

Pollution to me -- if I justify you, Till I expire I turn not aside mine integrity from me.

6 M y righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go; My heart shall not reproach me as long as I live.

On my righteousness I have laid hold, And I do not let it go, My heart doth not reproach me while I live.

7 “ May my enemy be like the wicked, And he who rises up against me like the unrighteous.

As the wicked is my enemy, And my withstander as the perverse.

8 F or what is the hope of the hypocrite, Though he may gain much, If God takes away his life?

For what the hope of the profane, When He doth cut off? When God doth cast off his soul?

9 W ill God hear his cry When trouble comes upon him?

His cry doth God hear, When distress cometh on him?

10 W ill he delight himself in the Almighty? Will he always call on God?

On the Mighty doth he delight himself? Call God at all times?

11 “ I will teach you about the hand of God; What is with the Almighty I will not conceal.

I shew you by the hand of God, That which with the Mighty I hide not.

12 S urely all of you have seen it; Why then do you behave with complete nonsense?

Lo, ye -- all of you -- have seen, And why this -- ye are altogether vain?

13 “ This is the portion of a wicked man with God, And the heritage of oppressors, received from the Almighty:

This the portion of wicked man with God, And the inheritance of terrible ones From the Mighty they receive.

14 I f his children are multiplied, it is for the sword; And his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

If his sons multiply -- for them a sword. And his offspring not satisfied bread.

15 T hose who survive him shall be buried in death, And their widows shall not weep,

His remnant in death are buried, And his widows do not weep.

16 T hough he heaps up silver like dust, And piles up clothing like clay—

If he heap up as dust silver, And as clay prepare clothing,

17 H e may pile it up, but the just will wear it, And the innocent will divide the silver.

He prepareth -- and the righteous putteth on, And the silver the innocent doth apportion.

18 H e builds his house like a moth, Like a booth which a watchman makes.

He hath built as a moth his house, And as a booth a watchman hath made.

19 T he rich man will lie down, But not be gathered up; He opens his eyes, And he is no more.

Rich he lieth down, and he is not gathered, His eyes he hath opened, and he is not.

20 T errors overtake him like a flood; A tempest steals him away in the night.

Overtake him as waters do terrors, By night stolen him away hath a whirlwind.

21 T he east wind carries him away, and he is gone; It sweeps him out of his place.

Take him up doth an east wind, and he goeth, And it frighteneth him from his place,

22 I t hurls against him and does not spare; He flees desperately from its power.

And it casteth at him, and doth not spare, From its hand he diligently fleeth.

23 M en shall clap their hands at him, And shall hiss him out of his place.

It clappeth at him its hands, And it hisseth at him from his place.