| 1 Job continued his discourse: | |
| 2 As surely as God lives, who denies my right, the Almighty, who has made me bitter, | |
| 3 as long as I have life within me and God’s breath in my nostrils, | |
| 4 my lips will not speak falsehood nor my tongue utter deceit. | |
| 5 Never will I admit you are right, nor deny my integrity till I die. | |
| 6 Never will I let go of my righteousness; my conscience is not put to shame. | |
| 7 Let my enemy be as the wicked and my adversary as the unrighteous. | |
| 8 For what hope has the godless when God cuts him off, when God takes away his life? | |
| 9 God will not listen to his call when he is beset by trouble. | |
| 10 For he did not delight in the Almighty or call upon him constantly. | |
| 11 See, I tell you the deeds of God and do not conceal the ways of the Almighty. | |
| 12 You have witnessed this yourselves. Why then these empty words? Third discourse of Nahama | |
| 13 This is a wicked man’s portion from God, the heritage of an oppressor which he receives from the Almighty. | |
| 14 Though his children be many, the sword is their destiny. His offspring will go hungry. | |
| 15 The plague will bury those who survive, and their widows will not mourn for them. | |
| 16 He may heap up silver like dust and pile up clothes like clay, | |
| 17 but what he stores, the just will wear, and the innocent divide his silver. | |
| 18 He builds his house like a cobweb, or like the hut a watchman makes. | |
| 19 Once more he lies down rich and wakes to see his wealth all gone. | |
| 20 Terrors rush upon him by day; at night a whirlwind carries him away. | |
| 21 The east wind lifts him up, and he disappears as it sweeps him out of his place. | |
| 22 People strike at him without mercy as he flees headlong from their hands. | |
| 23 They clap their hands in mockery and hiss at him from where they are. | |
