Job 31
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Job 31:19-34

19If I have seen anyone die because he had no clothes or a poor person going naked….

20(If his body didn’t bless me, or the wool from my sheep didn’t keep him warm….)

21If I have shaken my fist at an orphan because I knew that others would back me up in court,

22⌞then⌟ let my shoulder fall out of its socket, and let my arm be broken at the elbow.

23“A disaster from God terrifies me. In the presence of his majesty I can do nothing.

24“If I put my confidence in gold or said to fine gold, ‘I trust you’….

25If I enjoyed being very rich because my hand had found great ⌞wealth⌟….

26If I saw the light shine or the moon move along in its splendor

27so that my heart was secretly tempted, and I threw them a kiss with my hand,

28then that, too, would be a criminal offense, and I would have denied God above.

29“If I enjoyed the ruin of my enemy or celebrated when harm came to him

30(even though I didn’t speak sinfully by calling down a curse on his life)….

31“If the people who were in my tent had said, ‘We wish we had never filled ⌞our stomachs⌟ with his food’….

32(The visitor never spent the night outside, because I opened my door to the traveler.)

33“If I have covered my disobedience like Adam and kept my sin to myself,

34because I dreaded the large, noisy crowd and because the contempt of the ⌞local⌟ mobs terrified me so that I kept quiet and didn’t go outside….

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