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Job - ch 31 v 21 - 40
- If I have lifted up my hand against an orphan, 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 ùGod was a terror to me, and by reason of his excellency I was powerless.
- If I have made gold my hope, or said to the fine gold, My confidence!
- If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;
- If I beheld the sun when it shone, or the moon walking in brightness,
- And my heart have been secretly enticed, so that my mouth kissed my hand:
- This also would be an iniquity for the judge, for I should have denied the ùGod who is above.
- If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, and exulted when evil befell him;
- (Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse;)
- If the men of my tent said not, Who shall find one that hath not been satisfied with his meat? --
- The stranger did not lodge without; I opened my doors to the pathway.
- If I covered my transgressions as Adam, 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! Behold my signature: let the Almighty answer me! And let mine opponent write an accusation!
- Would I not take it upon my shoulder? I would bind it on to me as a crown;
- I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I come near to him.
- If my land cry out against me, and its furrows weep together;
- If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, and have tormented to death the souls of its owners:
- Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and tares instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.
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