1. Moreover Job continued his discourse:
2. “As God lives, who has taken away my judgment,and the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter,
3. all the while my spirit is in me,and the breath of God is in my nostrils,
4. my lips will not speak wickedness,nor my tongue utter deceit.
5. God forbid that I should justify you.Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.
6. My righteousness I hold fast and will not let it go;my heart will not reproach me as long as I live.
7. “Let my enemy be like the wicked,and he who rises up against me like the unrighteous.
8. For what is the hope of the hypocrite,though he may gain much, when God takes away his soul?