| 1 | Job also added, taking up his parable, and said: |
| 2 | As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment, and the Almighty, who hath brought my soul to bitterness, |
| 3 | As long as breath remaineth in me, and the spirit of God in my nostrils, |
| 4 | My lips shall not speak iniquity, neither shall my tongue contrive lying. |
| 5 | God forbid that I should judge you to be just: till I die I will not depart from my innocence. |
| 6 | My justification, which I have begun to hold, I will not forsake: for my heart doth not reprehend me in all my life. |
| 7 | Let my enemy be as the ungodly, and my adversary as the wicked one. |
| 8 | For what is the hope of the hypocrite if through covetousness he take by violence, and God deliver not his soul? |
| 9 | Will God hear his cry, when distress shall come upon him? |
| 10 | Or can he delight himself in the Almighty, and call upon God at all times? |
| 11 | I will teach you by the hand of God, what the Almighty hath, and I will not conceal it. |
| 12 | Behold you all know it, and why do you speak vain things without cause? |
| 13 | This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the inheritance of the violent, which they shall receive of the Almighty. |
| 14 | If his sons be multiplied, they shall be for the sword, and his grandsons shall not be filled with bread. |
| 15 | They that shall remain of him, shall be buried in death, and his widows shall not weep. |
| 16 | If he shall heap together silver as earth, and prepare raiment as clay, |
| 17 | He shall prepare indeed, but the just man shall be clothed with it: and the innocent shall divide the silver. |
| 18 | He hath built his house as a moth, and as a keeper he hath made a booth. |
| 19 | The rich man when he shall sleep shall take away nothing with him: he shall open his eyes and find nothing. |
| 20 | Poverty like water shall take hold on him, a tempest shall oppress him in the night. |
| 21 | A burning wind shall take him up, and carry him away, and as a whirlwind shall snatch him from his place. |
| 22 | And he shall cast upon him, and shall not spare: out of his hand he would willingly flee. |
| 23 | He shall clasp his hands upon him, and shall hiss at him, beholding his place. |
