| New Living Translation | NET Bible |
| 1Job continued speaking: | 1And Job took up his discourse again: |
| 2“I vow by the living God, who has taken away my rights, by the Almighty who has embittered my soul— | 2"As surely as God lives, who has denied me justice, the Almighty, who has made my life bitter-- |
| 3As long as I live, while I have breath from God, | 3for while my spirit is still in me, and the breath from God is in my nostrils, |
| 4my lips will speak no evil, and my tongue will speak no lies. | 4my lips will not speak wickedness, and my tongue will whisper no deceit. |
| 5I will never concede that you are right; I will defend my integrity until I die. | 5I will never declare that you three are in the right; until I die, I will not set aside my integrity! |
| 6I will maintain my innocence without wavering. My conscience is clear for as long as I live. | 6I will maintain my righteousness and never let it go; my conscience will not reproach me for as long as I live. |
| 7“May my enemy be punished like the wicked, my adversary like those who do evil. | 7"May my enemy be like the wicked, my adversary like the unrighteous. |
| 8For what hope do the godless have when God cuts them off and takes away their life? | 8For what hope does the godless have when he is cut off, when God takes away his life? |
| 9Will God listen to their cry when trouble comes upon them? | 9Does God listen to his cry when distress overtakes him? |
| 10Can they take delight in the Almighty? Can they call to God at any time? | 10Will he find delight in the Almighty? Will he call out to God at all times? |
| 11I will teach you about God’s power. I will not conceal anything concerning the Almighty. | 11I will teach you about the power of God; What is on the Almighty's mind I will not conceal. |
| 12But you have seen all this, yet you say all these useless things to me. | 12If you yourselves have all seen this, Why in the world do you continue this meaningless talk? |
| 13“This is what the wicked will receive from God; this is their inheritance from the Almighty. | 13This is the portion of the wicked man allotted by God, the inheritance that evildoers receive from the Almighty. |
| 14They may have many children, but the children will die in war or starve to death. | 14If his children increase--it is for the sword! His offspring never have enough to eat. |
| 15Those who survive will die of a plague, and not even their widows will mourn them. | 15Those who survive him are buried by the plague, and their widows do not mourn for them. |
| 16“Evil people may have piles of money and may store away mounds of clothing. | 16If he piles up silver like dust and stores up clothing like mounds of clay, |
| 17But the righteous will wear that clothing, and the innocent will divide that money. | 17what he stores up a righteous man will wear, and an innocent man will inherit his silver. |
| 18The wicked build houses as fragile as a spider’s web, as flimsy as a shelter made of branches. | 18The house he builds is as fragile as a moth's cocoon, like a hut that a watchman has made. |
| 19The wicked go to bed rich but wake to find that all their wealth is gone. | 19He goes to bed wealthy, but will do so no more. When he opens his eyes, it is all gone. |
| 20Terror overwhelms them like a flood, and they are blown away in the storms of the night. | 20Terrors overwhelm him like a flood; at night a whirlwind carries him off. |
| 21The east wind carries them away, and they are gone. It sweeps them away. | 21The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place. |
| 22It whirls down on them without mercy. They struggle to flee from its power. | 22It hurls itself against him without pity as he flees headlong from its power. |
| 23But everyone jeers at them and mocks them. | 23It claps its hands at him in derision and hisses him away from his place. |
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