Job Affirms His Integrity

1And Job will add to take up his parable, and say,

2God lives, he removed my judgment; and the Almighty embittered my soul;

3For all the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God in my nose;

4If my lips shall speak iniquity, and my tongue if it shall murmur deceit.

5Far be it to me if I shall justify you: till I expire I will not remove my integrity from me.

6My justice I held fast, and I will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach from my days.

The Wicked Man’s Portion

7Mine enemy shall be as the unjust one, and he rising up against me, as the evil one.

8For what the hope of the profane one if he shall plunder? for God shall draw out his soul.

9Will God hear his cry when straits shall come upon him?

10If he will delight himself upon the Almighty? will he call upon God in all time?

11I will teach you by the hand of God: what is with the Almighty I will not hide.

12Behold, all ye yourselves saw; and wherefore this, will ye breathe out vanity?

13This the portion of an unjust man with God, and the inheritance of the terrible they shall take from the Almighty.

14If his sons shall be multiplied, for then the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

15His surviving one shall be buried in death, and his widows shall not weep.

16If he shall heap up silver as the dust, and prepare clothing as clay;

17He shall prepare, and the just shall put on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.

18He built his house as the moth, and as a booth he watching made.

19The rich one shall lie down, and he shall not be gathered: he opened his eyes, and he is not.

20Terrors shall hedge him about as waters, the night a tempest stole him away.

21The east wind shall lift him up, and he shall go: and it shall sweep him away in storm from his place.

22For he shall cast upon him and not spare: fleeing, he will flee from his hand.

23It shall be clapped upon him with their hands, and it shall be hissed upon him from his place.