✧Moreover Job continued his parable, and said, ✧2[As] God liveth, [who] hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, [who] hath vexed my soul; ✧3All the while my breath [is] in me, and the spirit of God [is] in my nostrils; ✧4My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit. ✧5God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me. ✧6My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach [me] so long as I live. ✧7Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous. ✧8For what [is] the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul? ✧9Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him? ✧10Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God? ✧11I will teach you by the hand of God: [that] which [is] with the Almighty will I not conceal. ✧12Behold, all ye yourselves have seen [it;] why then are ye thus altogether vain? ✧13This [is] the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, [which] they shall receive of the Almighty. ✧14If his children be multiplied, [it is] for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread. ✧15Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep. ✧16Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay; ✧17He may prepare [it], but the just shall put [it] on, and the innocent shall divide the silver. ✧18He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth [that] the keeper maketh. ✧19The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he openeth his eyes, and he [is] not. ✧20Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night. ✧21The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place. ✧22For [God] shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand. ✧23[Men] shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.