Job 31:21-40
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21 If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:
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22 Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.
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23 For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.
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24 If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;
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25 If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much;
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26 If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;
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27 And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand:
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28 This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.
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29 If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:
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30 Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.
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31 If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.
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32 The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller.
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33 If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:
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34 Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door?
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35 Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.
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36 Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.
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37 I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.
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38 If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;
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39 If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:
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40 Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.