1. Then Job took up his topic again:
2. As God lives, who rejected my legal claim,the Almighty, who made me bitter,
3. as long as breath is in meand God’s breath is in my nostrils—
4. my lips will utter no wickedness;my tongue will mumble no deceit.
5. I will not agree that you are right.Until my dying day, I won’t give up my integrity.
6. I will insist on my innocence, never surrendering it;my conscience will never blame me for what I have done.
7. Let my enemy be like the wicked,my opposition like the vicious.
8. For what hope has the godless when God cuts them off,when he takes them away.
9. Will God hear their crieswhen distress comes to them;
10. will they delight in the Almighty,call God at any time?
11. I will teach you God’s power,not hide what pertains to the Almighty.