Job 31:5-23

5“If I have walked with lies or my feet have run after deception,

6⌞then⌟ let God weigh me on honest scales, and he will know I have integrity.

7“If my steps have left the ⌞proper⌟ path, or my heart has followed ⌞the desire of⌟ my eyes, or my hands are stained ⌞with sin⌟,

8⌞then⌟ let someone else eat what I have planted, and let my crops be uprooted.

9“If I have been seduced by a woman or I have secretly waited near my neighbor’s door,

10⌞then⌟ let my wife grind for another ⌞man⌟, and let other ⌞men⌟ kneel over her.

11That would be a scandal, and that would be a criminal offense.

12It would be a fire that burns even in Abaddon. It would uproot my entire harvest.

13“If I have abused the rights of my servants, male or female, when they have disagreed with me,

14then what could I do if God rises up? If he examines me, how could I answer him?

15Didn’t he who made me in my mother’s belly make them? Didn’t the same God form us in the womb?

16“If I have refused the requests of the poor or made a widow’s eyes stop ⌞looking for help⌟,

17or have eaten my food alone without letting the orphan eat any of it….

18(From my youth the orphan grew up with me as though I were his father, and from my birth I treated the widow kindly.)

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.