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1 - Moreover, Job continued his parable, and said,

2 - [As] God liveth, [who] hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty [who] hath afflicted my soul;

3 - All the while my breath [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 - Far be it from me that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove my integrity 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 wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous.

8 - For what [is] the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?

9 - Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him?

10 - Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?

11 - I will teach you by the hand of God: [that] which [is] with the Almighty will I not conceal.

12 - Behold, all ye yourselves have seen [it]; why then are ye thus altogether vain?

13 - This [is] the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, [which] they shall receive of the Almighty.

14 - If his children are multiplied, [it is] for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

15 - Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep.

16 - Though he should heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay?

17 - He may prepare [it], but the just shall put [it] on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.

18 - He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth [that] the keeper maketh.

19 - The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he openeth his eyes, and he [is] not.

20 - Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.

21 - The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.

22 - For [God] shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.

23 - [Men] shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.