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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 spiders 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.