And Iyyov continued his discourse, and said,

Then Iyyov continued — raising his voice in parable — and he said:

As God lives, who has taken away my right; and the Almighty, who has embittered my soul;

[I swear] As G d lives, He has cast aside my judgment, and, [as] the Almighty [lives], He has embittered my spirit.

all the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;

For as long as my spirit is in me and the breath of G d is in my nostrils,

my lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.

[may this oath be upon me] if my lips speak wrongly or my tongue utters deceit.

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

[G d] forbid that I should justify you [(in your incrimination of me)]. Until I die, I shall not disavow my innocence.

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

I have persisted in my righteousness and not grown slack. My heart never reproached [me for my conduct] all of my days.

Let my enemy be as the wicked, and he who rises up against me as the unrighteous.

[Perforce,] it is my foe who is the evildoer, and he who rises against me, the wrongdoer.

For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he has gained, when God takes away his soul?

For what is the hope of the flatterer who robs, when G d casts away his soul?

Will God hear his cry when trouble comes upon him?

Will G d hear his outcry when trouble comes upon him?

Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?

Will he delight in the Almighty? Will he call upon G d at all times?

I will teach you concerning the hand of God: that which is with the Almighty will I not conceal.

I will teach you what [(mode of conduct)] is in the hand of G d. I will not conceal what resides with the Almighty.

Behold, all you yourselves have seen it; why then do you thus altogether breathe emptiness?

In truth, all of you have seen [viz. verse 13, etc.]. Why, then, do you pursue vanity [(being evildoers and flatterers)]?

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

This [(as you have seen)] is the portion of the wicked man, which is reposited with G d, and the inheritance that the tyrants will take from the Almighty.

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

Though his sons increase, they are for the sword, and his descendants will not be sated with bread.

Those that remain of him shall be buried by some other death: and his widows shall not weep.

Those that are left to him, in death [(after terrible afflictions)] will be buried, and his widows will not mourn them, [(seeing their death as a "reprieve")].

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

He may amass silver as dust and store up raiment as clay.

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

He may store it up, but the righteous one will wear it, and He will apportion the silver [to] the innocent one.

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

He has built his house [(to come down)] as that of a moth and as a booth made by a watcher.

A rich man shall he lie down, as though his wealth could not be summed up: he opens his eyes, and it is gone.

He dies rich and [sometimes] he is not [even] gathered up [for burial]. He opens his eyes and he is gone.

Terrors overtake him like waters; a tempest steals him away in the night.

Terrors seize him as a torrent. At night he is spirited away by a whirlwind.

The east wind carries him away, and he departs: and it hurts him out of his place.

The east wind lifts him up and he goes, and it sweeps him from his place.

It hurls itself at him, and does not spare: he would fain flee out of its hand.

[Men] heap [evil] upon him and have no mercy. [His former friends] flee from him.

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

Men smite their palms over him [(in dismay at his downfall)], and they whistle over him in his place.