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[1]MOREOVER Job continued his parable, and said,
[2]As God lives, who has wronged my judgment, and the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter;
[3]As long as my soul is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;
[4]My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.
[5]God forbid that I should do evil, till I die I will not remove my innocence from me.
[6]My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go; my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live
[7]Let my enemy be as the ungodly, and he that hates me as the wicked.
[8]For though he has accumulated riches, what is the hope of the godless at the time when God takes away his life?
[9]For God will not hear his prayer when trouble comes upon him.
[10]But if he should trust in the Almighty, and always call upon God, God will hear him and answer him
[11]But as for you, I will deliver you into the hand of God; so that your works may not be hid from him.
[12]Behold, all of you have seen it; why then do you boast in vain?
[13]This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive from the Almighty.
[14]If their children are multiplied, it is for the sword; and their offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
[15]Those who remain of them shall be buried in death; and their widows shall not weep over them.
[16]Though they heap up silver like dust and accumulate clothes like clay,
[17]They may pile them up, yet the righteous shall wear them, and shall also divide their silver.
[18]For the wicked has built his house upon a spider's web, and like a booth he had made his shelter.
[19]The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not rise again; he opens his eyes, and he is gone.
[20]Terrors overtake him like swift water, and like a tempest that rages.
[21]The east wind shall carry him away in the night, and he is gone; and shall hurl him out of his place.
[22]For God shall cast him out without pity, and he cannot escape out of his hand.
[23]He shall smite him with his hand, and shall hiss against him from his dwelling place
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