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Job Maintains His Integrity

27Job again took up his discourse and said:
² ‘As God lives, who has taken away my right,
   and the Almighty,^* who has made my soul bitter,
³ as long as my breath is in me
   and the spirit of God is in my nostrils,
⁴ my lips will not speak falsehood,
   and my tongue will not utter deceit.
⁵ Far be it from me to say that you are right;
   until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.
⁶ I hold fast my righteousness, and will not let it go;
   my heart does not reproach me for any of my days.

⁷ ‘May my enemy be like the wicked,
   and may my opponent be like the unrighteous.
⁸ For what is the hope of the godless when God cuts them off,
   when God takes away their lives?
⁹ Will God hear their cry
   when trouble comes upon them?
¹⁰ Will they take delight in the Almighty?^*
   Will they call upon God at all times?
¹¹ I will teach you concerning the hand of God;
   that which is with the Almighty^* I will not conceal.
¹² All of you have seen it yourselves;
   why then have you become altogether vain?