1. And Job took up his discourse again, saying:
2. “As God lives, who has deprived me of justice, Shaddai who has made my soul bitter,
3. as long as my breath is still in me, the Ruach of God in my nostrils,
4. my lips will speak no injustice, nor will my tongue mutter deceit.
5. Far be it from me to say that you are just; until I die, I will not set aside my integrity!
6. I will maintain my righteousness, and not let it go; my conscience will not reproach me for any of my days.
7. “May my enemy be like the wicked my enemy like the unrighteous.
8. For what hope has the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes his soul?