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¹ And Job adds to lift up his allegory and says:² "God lives! He turned aside my judgment, || And the Mighty—He made my soul bitter.³ For all the while my breath [is] in me, || And the wind of God in my nostrils.⁴ My lips do not speak perverseness, || And my tongue does not utter deceit.⁵ Defilement to me—if I justify you, || Until I expire I do not turn aside my integrity from me.⁶ On my righteousness I have laid hold, || And I do not let it go, || My heart does not reproach me while I live.

⁷ My enemy is as the wicked, || And my withstander as the perverse.⁸ For what [is] the hope of the profane, || When He cuts off? When God casts off his soul?⁹ [Does] God hear his cry, || When distress comes on him?¹⁰ Does he delight himself on the Mighty? Call God at all times?

¹¹ I show you by the hand of God, || That which [is] with the Mighty I do not hide.¹² Behold, you—all of you—have seen, || And why [is] this—you are altogether vain?¹³ This [is] the portion of wicked man with God, || And the inheritance of terrible ones || They receive from the Mighty.¹⁴ If his sons multiply—a sword [is] for them. And his offspring [are] not satisfied [with] bread.¹⁵ His remnant are buried in death, || And his widows do not weep.¹⁶ If he heaps up silver as dust, || And prepares clothing as clay,¹⁷ He prepares—and the righteous puts [it] on, || And the innocent apportions the silver.¹⁸ He has built his house as a moth, || And as a shelter a watchman has made.¹⁹ He lies down rich, and he is not gathered, || He has opened his eyes, and he is not.²⁰ Terrors overtake him as waters, || By night a whirlwind has stolen him away.²¹ An east wind takes him up, and he goes, || And it frightens him from his place,²² And it casts at him, and does not spare, || He diligently flees from its hand.²³ It claps its hands at him, || And it hisses at him from his place."