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Job: By God—who lives and has deprived me of justice,
        the Highest One[a] who has also embittered my soul—
    I make this proclamation:
        that, while there is life in me,
    While the breath of that selfsame God is in my nostrils,
    My lips will not let lies escape them,
        and my tongue will not form deceit.

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Footnotes

  1. 27:2 Hebrew, Shaddai

“As surely as God lives, who has denied me justice,(A)
    the Almighty,(B) who has made my life bitter,(C)
as long as I have life within me,
    the breath of God(D) in my nostrils,
my lips will not say anything wicked,
    and my tongue will not utter lies.(E)

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