Job 31:13-40

13If I have despised the cause of my bondman or of my bondmaid, when they contended with me, 14What then should I do when 1God riseth up? and if he visited, what should I answer him? 15Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not One fashion us in the womb? 16If I have withheld the poor from [their] desire, or caused the eyes of the widow to fail; 17Or have eaten my morsel alone, so that the fatherless ate not thereof, 18(For from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, and I have guided the [widow] from my mother's womb;) 19If I have seen any perishing for want of clothing, or any needy without covering; 20If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my lambs; 21If I have lifted up my hand against an orphan, because I saw my help in the gate: 22[Then] let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone! 23For calamity from 2God was a terror to me, and by reason of his excellency I was powerless. 24If I have made gold my hope, or said to the fine gold, My confidence! 25If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much; 26If I beheld the sun when it shone, or the moon walking in brightness, 27And my heart have been secretly enticed, so that my mouth kissed my hand: 28This also would be an iniquity for the judge, for I should have denied the 3God who is above. 29If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, and exulted when evil befell him; 30(Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse;) 31If the men of my tent said not, Who shall find one that hath not been satisfied with his meat? — 32The stranger did not lodge without; I opened my doors to the pathway. 33If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom, 34Because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and went not out of the door, ... 35Oh that I had one to hear me! Behold my signature: let the Almighty answer me! And let mine opponent write an accusation! 36Would I not take it upon my shoulder? I would bind it on to me [as] a crown; 37I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I come near to him. 38If my land cry out against me, and its furrows weep together; 39If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, and have tormented to death the souls of its owners: 40Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and tares instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.