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Job - ch 31 v 21 - 40
- If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, Because I saw my help in the gate:
- Then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade, And mine arm be broken from the bone.
- For calamity from God is a terror to me, And by reason of his majesty I can do nothing.
- If I have made gold my hope, And have said to the fine gold, `Thou art' my confidence;
- If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, And because my hand had gotten much;
- If I have beheld the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness,
- And my heart hath been secretly enticed, And my mouth hath kissed my hand:
- This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judges; For I should have denied the God that is above.
- If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, Or lifted up myself when evil found him;
- (Yea, I have not suffered by mouth to sin By asking his life with a curse);
- If the men of my tent have not said, Who can find one that hath not been filled with his meat?
- (The sojourner hath not lodged in the street; But I have opened my doors to the traveller);
- If like Adam I have covered my transgressions, By hiding mine iniquity in my bosom,
- Because I feared the great multitude, And the contempt of families terrified me, So that I kept silence, and went not out of the door-
- Oh that I had one to hear me! (Lo, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me); And `that I had' the indictment which mine adversary hath written!
- Surely I would carry it upon my shoulder; I would bind it unto me as a crown:
- I would declare unto him the number of my steps; As a prince would I go near unto him.
- If my land crieth out against me, And the furrows thereof weep together;
- If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, Or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:
- Let thistles grow instead of wheat, And cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.
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