1Job also added, taking up his parable, and said:

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Numbers 24:15, Job 29:1, Numbers 23:7, Numbers 24:15, Job 29:1

2As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment, and the Almighty, who hath brought my soul to bitterness,

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Job 34:5, Job 34:5, 2 Kings 4:27, Numbers 14:21, 2 Kings 4:27

3As long as breath remaineth in me, and the spirit of God in my nostrils,

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Genesis 2:7, Genesis 2:7, Job 33:4, Job 33:4, Isaiah 2:22

4My lips shall not speak iniquity, neither shall my tongue contrive lying.

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Job 13:7, Job 13:7, John 8:55, Job 6:28, Job 34:6

5God forbid that I should judge you to be just: till I die I will not depart from my innocence.

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Job 2:9, Job 2:9, Job 13:15, Job 13:15, Job 29:14

6My justification, which I have begun to hold, I will not forsake: for my heart doth not reprehend me in all my life.

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Job 2:3, Job 2:3, 1 John 3:20, 1 John 3:21, Acts 24:16

7Let my enemy be as the ungodly, and my adversary as the wicked one.

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Daniel 4:19, Daniel 4:19, 2 Samuel 18:32, 1 Samuel 25:26, 2 Samuel 18:32

8For what is the hope of the hypocrite if through covetousness he take by violence, and God deliver not his soul?

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Matthew 16:26, Matthew 16:26, Luke 12:20, Luke 12:21, Job 8:13

9Will God hear his cry, when distress shall come upon him?

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Jeremiah 14:12, Isaiah 1:15, Proverbs 1:28, Jeremiah 14:12, Isaiah 1:15

10Or can he delight himself in the Almighty, and call upon God at all times?

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Psalms 37:4, Job 22:26, Job 22:27, Psalms 37:4, Job 22:26

11I will teach you by the hand of God, what the Almighty hath, and I will not conceal it.

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Psalms 71:17, Job 4:3, Job 4:4, Isaiah 8:11, Psalms 71:17

12Behold you all know it, and why do you speak vain things without cause?

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Job 26:2, Job 26:4, Ecclesiastes 9:1, Ecclesiastes 9:3, Job 21:28

13This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the inheritance of the violent, which they shall receive of the Almighty.

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Isaiah 3:11, Job 20:19, Job 20:29, Isaiah 3:11, Job 20:19

14If his sons be multiplied, they shall be for the sword, and his grandsons shall not be filled with bread.

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Deuteronomy 28:41, Deuteronomy 28:41, Job 20:10, Luke 23:29, Job 20:10

15They that shall remain of him, shall be buried in death, and his widows shall not weep.

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Psalms 78:64, Psalms 78:64, Jeremiah 22:18, 1 Kings 21:21, 1 Kings 21:24

16If he shall heap together silver as earth, and prepare raiment as clay,

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Zechariah 9:3, Zechariah 9:3, Matthew 6:19, Matthew 6:19, Job 22:24

17He shall prepare indeed, but the just man shall be clothed with it: and the innocent shall divide the silver.

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Proverbs 13:22, Proverbs 13:22, Proverbs 28:8, Ecclesiastes 2:26, Proverbs 28:8

18He hath built his house as a moth, and as a keeper he hath made a booth.

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Job 8:14, Job 8:15, Isaiah 1:8, Job 8:14, Job 8:15

19The rich man when he shall sleep shall take away nothing with him: he shall open his eyes and find nothing.

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Job 24:24, Job 24:24, Psalms 58:9, Psalms 58:9, Psalms 73:19

20Poverty like water shall take hold on him, a tempest shall oppress him in the night:

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Job 15:21, Job 15:21, Job 18:11, Job 18:11, Psalms 69:14

21A burning wind shall take him up, and carry him away, and as a whirlwind shall snatch him from his place.

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Psalms 11:6, Psalms 11:6, Psalms 83:15, Psalms 83:15, Psalms 58:9

22And he shall cast upon him, and shall not spare: out of his hand he would willingly flee.

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2 Peter 2:4, 2 Peter 2:5, 2 Peter 2:4, 2 Peter 2:5, Job 20:24

23He shall clasp his hands upon him, and shall hiss at him, beholding his place.

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Lamentations 2:15, Lamentations 2:15, 1 Kings 9:8, Zephaniah 2:15, 1 Kings 9:8