Job 31:13-40

13If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me: 14What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall 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 have caused the eyes of the widow to fail; 17Or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof; 18(Nay, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, and I have been her guide from my mother’s womb;) 19If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering; 20If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep; 21If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate: 22Then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone. 23For calamity from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his excellency I could do nothing. 24If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence; 25If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much; 26If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness; 27And my heart hath been secretly enticed, and my mouth hath kissed my hand: 28This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judges: for I should have lied to God that is above. 29If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him; 30(Yea, I suffered not my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse;) 31If the men of my tent said not, Who can find one that hath not been satisfied with his flesh? 32The stranger did not lodge in the street; but I opened my doors to the traveller; 33If like Adam I covered my transgressions, 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! (lo, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me;) and that I had the indictment which mine adversary hath written! 36Surely I would carry it upon my shoulder; I would bind it unto me as a crown. 37I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him. 38If my land cry out against me, and the furrows thereof weep together; 39If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life: 40Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.