1Job replied again to his three friends,
2“Almighty God has refused to treat me justly/fairly.
3as long as God’s Spirit enables me to breathe,
4I will not lie;
5I will never admit that what you three have said is true;
6I will say that I am innocent, and never ◄say anything different/change what I say►;
7“I want my enemies to be punished like all wicked people are punished;
8When it is time for God to get rid of godless/wicked people and to cause them to die,
9When they experience troubles, ◄will God hear them call out to him for help?/God certainly will not hear them call out to him for help.► [RHQ]
10◄Will they be happy about what Almighty God does?/They certainly will not be happy about what Almighty God does.► [RHQ]
11“I will teach you three something about the power [MTY] of Almighty God [MTY];
12But you three have seen for yourselves what God has done;
13“I will tell you what Almighty God does to wicked people,
14Even if they have many children, many of those children will die in wars [MTY],
15Their children who are still alive will die from diseases,
16Sometimes wicked people accumulate a huge amount [SIM] of silver
17but those wicked people will die, and then righteous people will wear those clothes,
18The houses that they build are as frail/fragile as [SIM] spider webs,
19Wicked people are rich when they lie down at night,
20“Things that terrify them [PRS] strike them like a flood [SIM];
21It is as though the wind from the east picks them up and carries them away from their homes,
22That wind strikes them without pitying them
23That wind is like someone clapping his hands [MET] at them to ridicule them,