⁴⁰ I lift my hand^(A) to heaven and solemnly swear:
    As surely as I live forever,^(B)

“What right have you to recite my laws
    or take my covenant^(A) on your lips?^(B)

² and if in a truthful, just and righteous way
    you swear,^(A) ‘As surely as the Lord lives,’^(B)
then the nations will invoke blessings^(C) by him
    and in him they will boast.^(D)”