Job 31
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Job 31:5-17

5If I have walked in falsehood, and if my foot has hastened to deceit –

6let him weigh me with honest scales; then God will discover my integrity.

7If my footsteps have strayed from the way, if my heart has gone after my eyes, or if anything has defiled my hands,

8then let me sow and let another eat, and let my crops be uprooted.

9If my heart has been enticed by a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbor’s door,

10then let my wife turn the millstone for another man, and may other men have sexual relations with her.

11For I would have committed a shameful act, an iniquity to be judged.

12For it is a fire that devours even to Destruction, and it would uproot all my harvest.

13“If I have disregarded the right of my male servants or my female servants when they disputed with me,

14then what will I do when God confronts me in judgment; when he intervenes, how will I respond to him?

15Did not the one who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same one form us in the womb?

16If I have refused to give the poor what they desired, or caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

17If I ate my morsel of bread myself, and did not share any of it with orphans –

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