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¹And Job further continued and said in his parable,

²As God lives, who has thus judge me; and the Almighty, who has embittered my soul;

³verily, while my breath is yet in me, and the breath of God which remains to me is in my nostrils,

⁴my lips shall not speak evil words, neither shall my soul meditate unrighteous thoughts.

⁵Far be it from me that I should justify you till I die; for I will not let go my innocence,

⁶but keeping fast to my righteousness I will by no means let it go: for I am not conscious to myself of having done any thing amiss.

⁷Nay rather, but let my enemies be as the overthrow of the ungodly, and they that rise up against me, as the destruction of transgressors.

⁸For what is the hope of the ungodly, that he holds to it? will he indeed trust in the Lord and be saved?

⁹Will God hear his prayer? or, when distress has come upon him,

¹⁰has he any confidence before him? or will God hear him as he calls upon him?

¹¹Yet now I will tell you what is in the hand of the Lord: I will not lie concerning the things which are with the Almighty.

¹²Behold, you° all know that you° are adding vanity to vanity.

¹³This is the portion of an ungodly man from the Lord, and the possession of oppressors shall come upon them from the Almighty.

¹⁴And if their children be many, they shall be for slaughter: and if they grow up, they shall beg.

¹⁵And they that survive of him shall utterly perish, and no one shall pity their widows.

¹⁶Even if he should gather silver as earth, and prepare gold as clay;

¹⁷All these things shall the righteous gain, and the true-hearted shall possess his wealth.

¹⁸And his house is gone like moths, and like a spider's web.

¹⁹The rich man shall lie down, and shall not continue: he has opened his eyes, and he is not.

²⁰Pains have come upon him as water, and darkness has carried him away by night.

²¹And a burning wind shall catch him, and he shall depart, and it shall utterly drive him out of his place.

²²And God shall cast trouble upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.

²³He shall cause men to clap their hands against them, and shall hiss him out of his place.