Job:31:5-40
rsv@Job:31:5 @ "If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot has hastened to deceit;
rsv@Job:31:6 @ (Let me be weighed in a just balance, and let God know my integrity!)
rsv@Job:31:7 @ if my step has turned aside from the way, and my heart has gone after my eyes, and if any spot has cleaved to my hands;
rsv@Job:31:8 @ then let me sow, and another eat; and let what grows for me be rooted out.
rsv@Job:31:9 @ "If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbor's door;
rsv@Job:31:10 @ then let my wife grind for another, and let others bow down upon her.
rsv@Job:31:11 @ For that would be a heinous crime; that would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges;
rsv@Job:31:12 @ for that would be a fire which consumes unto Abaddon, and it would burn to the root all my increase.
rsv@Job:31:13 @ "If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or my maidservant, when they brought a complaint against me;
rsv@Job:31:14 @ what then shall I do when God rises up? When he makes inquiry, what shall I answer him?
rsv@Job:31:15 @ Did not he who made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb?
rsv@Job:31:16 @ "If I have withheld anything that the poor desired, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
rsv@Job:31:17 @ or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it
rsv@Job:31:18 @ (for from his youth I reared him as a father, and from his mother's womb I guided him);
rsv@Job:31:19 @ if I have seen any one perish for lack of clothing, or a poor man without covering;
rsv@Job:31:20 @ if his loins have not blessed me, and if he was not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
rsv@Job:31:21 @ if I have raised my hand against the fatherless, because I saw help in the gate;
rsv@Job:31:22 @ then let my shoulder blade fall from my shoulder, and let my arm be broken from its socket.
rsv@Job:31:23 @ For I was in terror of calamity from God, and I could not have faced his majesty.
rsv@Job:31:24 @ "If I have made gold my trust, or called fine gold my confidence;
rsv@Job:31:25 @ if I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, or because my hand had gotten much;
rsv@Job:31:26 @ if I have looked at the sun when it shone, or the moon moving in splendor,
rsv@Job:31:27 @ and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my mouth has kissed my hand;
rsv@Job:31:28 @ this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges, for I should have been false to God above.
rsv@Job:31:29 @ "If I have rejoiced at the ruin of him that hated me, or exulted when evil overtook him
rsv@Job:31:30 @ (I have not let my mouth sin by asking for his life with a curse);
rsv@Job:31:31 @ if the men of my tent have not said, `ho is there that has not been filled with his meat?'
rsv@Job:31:32 @ (the sojourner has not lodged in the street; I have opened my doors to the wayfarer);
rsv@Job:31:33 @ if I have concealed my transgressions from men, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom,
rsv@Job:31:34 @ because I stood in great fear of the multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and did not go out of doors--
rsv@Job:31:35 @ Oh, that I had one to hear me! (Here is my signature! let the Almighty answer me!) Oh, that I had the indictment written by my adversary!
rsv@Job:31:36 @ Surely I would carry it on my shoulder; I would bind it on me as a crown;
rsv@Job:31:37 @ I would give him an account of all my steps; like a prince I would approach him.
rsv@Job:31:38 @ "If my land has cried out against me, and its furrows have wept together;
rsv@Job:31:39 @ if I have eaten its yield without payment, and caused the death of its owners;
rsv@Job:31:40 @ let thorns grow instead of wheat, and foul weeds instead of barley." The words of Job are ended.
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