1. Job again took up his parable, and said,
2. “As God lives, who has taken away my right, the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter
3. (for the length of my life is still in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils);
4. surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, neither shall my tongue utter deceit.
5. Far be it from me that I should justify you. Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.
6. I hold fast to my righteousness, 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. Let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous.
8. For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?
9. Will God hear his cry when trouble comes on him?
10. Will he delight himself in the Almighty, and call on God at all times?