Job Continues His Final Speech

¹ Then¹ Job again took up his discourse and said,

1. Hebrew “And”

² “⌞As God lives⌟,¹ he has removed my justice, and Shaddai has made my inner self² bitter.

1. Literally “The life of God”
2. Or “soul”

³ For ⌞as long as⌟¹ my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nose,

1. Literally “all of still”

⁴ my lips surely will not speak falseness, and my tongue surely will not utter deceit.

⁵ Far be it from me that ⌞I would say that you¹ are right⌟;² until I pass away, I will not put away from me my blamelessness.

1. Plural
2. Literally “I would declare you as in the right”

⁶ I hold fast to my righteousness, and I will not let it go; my heart will not blame any of my days.

⁷ “Let my enemy be like the wicked and my opponent like the unrighteous,

⁸ for what is the hope of the godless when he cuts them off, when God takes away his life?

⁹ Will God hear his cry of distress when distress comes upon him?

¹⁰ Or, in Shaddai will he find delight? Will he call upon God at all times?

¹¹ “I will teach you¹ about² God’s hand; I will not conceal that which is with Shaddai.

1. Plural
2. Or “concerning”

¹² Look, you all have seen, and ⌞why in the world⌟¹ ⌞have you become altogether vain⌟?²

1. Literally “why this”
2. Literally “vain you have become vain”

¹³ “This is the portion of the wicked human being with God, and they receive from Shaddai the inheritance of the ruthless.

¹⁴ If their children multiply, it is for the sword, and his offspring ⌞do not have enough to eat⌟.¹

1. Literally “they are not satisfied with bread”

¹⁵ Their¹ survivors are buried through² the plague, and their³ widows do not weep.

1. Hebrew “His”
2. Or “because of”
3. Hebrew “his”

¹⁶ If he heaps up silver like the dust and fashions clothing like the clay,

¹⁷ he makes it ready, and the righteous will wear it, and the innocent will divide the silver.

¹⁸ “He builds his house like the moth, and like a booth that a watchman has made.

¹⁹ He goes to bed with wealth, but¹ ⌞he will do so no more⌟;² he opens his eyes, and ⌞it is gone⌟.³

1. Hebrew “and”
2. Literally “he will not do again”
3. Literally “it is not”

²⁰ Terrors overtake him like the water; a storm wind carries him off in the night.

²¹ The east wind lifts him up, and he is gone, and it sweeps him away from his place.

²² And it hurls at him, and it has no compassion; he will quickly flee from its power.

²³ It claps its hands over him, and it hisses at him from its place.