1. And Job continued speaking:
2. “As surely as God lives, who has taken away my rights,the Almighty, who has made me unhappy,
3. as long as I am aliveand God’s breath of life is in my nose,
4. my lips will not speak evil,and my tongue will not tell a lie.
5. I will never agree you are right;until I die, I will never stop saying I am innocent.
6. I will insist that I am right; I will not back down.My conscience will never bother me.
7. “Let my enemies be like evil people,my foes like those who are wrong.
8. What hope do the wicked have when they die,when God takes their life away?
9. God will not listen to their crieswhen trouble comes to them.