1And Job(Iob also) proceeded and went(wete) forth in his communication, saying:
2As truly as God liveth (which hath taken away my power from me) and the Almighty, that hath vexed my mind:
3My lips shall talk of no vanity, and my tongue shall speak no deceit,
4while my breath is in me, and as long as the wind (that God hath given me) is in my nostrils.
5God forbid, that I should grant your cause to be right. As for me, until mine end come will I never go from my innocency.
6My righteous dealing keep I fast, which I will not forsake: my heart shall not reprove me of my days.(My rightuous dealynge wil I kepe fast, and not forsake it: For my conscience reproueth me not in all my conuersacion.)
7Therefore mine enemy shall be found as the ungodly, and he that taketh part against me, as the unrighteous.
8What hope hath the hypocrite, though he have great good, and though God give him riches after his heart's desire?
9Doth God hear him the sooner, when he crieth unto him in his necessity?
10Hath he such pleasure and delight in the Almighty, that he dare alway call upon God?
11I will teach you in the name of God? and the thing that I have of the Almighty, will I not keep from you.
12Behold, ye stand in your own conceit, as though ye knew all things. Wherefore then do ye go about with such vain words,
13saying: This is that portion that the wicked shall have of God, and the heritage that Tyrants shall receive of the Almighty.
14If he get many children, they shall perish with the sword, and his posterity shall have scarceness of bread.
15Look whom he leaveth behind him, they shall die and be buried, and no man shall have pity of his widows.
16Though he have as much money as the dust of the earth, and raiment as ready as the clay,
17he may well prepare it: but the godly shall put it upon him, and the innocent shall deal out the money.
18His house shall endure as the moth, and as a booth that the watchman maketh.
19When the rich man dieth, he carrieth nothing with him: he is gone in the twinkling of an eye.
20Destruction taketh hold upon him as a water flood, and the tempest stealeth him away in the night season.
21A vehement wind carrieth him hence, and departeth: a storm plucketh him out of his place.
22It rusheth in upon him, and spareth him not, he may not escape from the power thereof.
23Then clap men their hands at him, yea and jest of him, when they look upon his place.