1. And Job continued his parable and said,
2. As ·God liveth, who hath taken away my right, and the Almighty, who hath embittered my soul,
3. All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of +God is in my nostrils,
4. My lips shall not speak unrighteousness, nor my tongue utter deceit!
5. Be it far from me that I should justify you; till I die I will not remove my blamelessness from me.
6. My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart reproacheth me not one of my days.
7. Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous.
8. For what is the hope of the ungodly, when God cutteth him off, when +God taketh away his soul?