(For the length of my life is still in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils);

For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?

"As God lives, who has taken away my right, the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter.

Far be it from me that I should justify you. Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.

"This is the portion of a wicked man with God, the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty.

Job again took up his parable, and said,

He builds his house as the moth, as a booth which the watchman makes.

Will he delight himself in the Almighty, and call on God at all times?

I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.

The east wind carries him away, and he departs. It sweeps him out of his place.

Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare clothing as the clay;

Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.

Terrors overtake him like waters. A storm steals him away in the night.

Will God hear his cry when trouble comes on him?

Those who remain of him shall be buried in death. His widows shall make no lamentation.

surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, neither shall my tongue utter deceit.

He lies down rich, but he shall not do so again. He opens his eyes, and he is not.

For it hurls at him, and does not spare, as he flees away from his hand.

If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword. His offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

I will teach you about the hand of God. That which is with the Almighty will I not conceal.

he may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.

"Let my enemy be as the wicked. Let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous.

Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves; why then have you become altogether vain?