22. Then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade, And mine arm be broken from the bone.
23. For calamity from God is a terror to me, And by reason of his majesty I can do nothing.
24. If I have made gold my hope, And have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;
25. If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, And because my hand had gotten much;
26. If I have beheld the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness,
27. And my heart hath been secretly enticed, And my mouth hath kissed my hand:
28. This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judges; For I should have denied the God that is above.
29. If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, Or lifted up myself when evil found him;
30. (Yea, I have not suffered by mouth to sin By asking his life with a curse);
31. If the men of my tent have not said, Who can find one that hath not been filled with his meat?
32. (The sojourner hath not lodged in the street; But I have opened my doors to the traveller);
33. If like Adam I have covered my transgressions, By hiding mine iniquity in my bosom,
34. Because I feared the great multitude, And the contempt of families terrified me, So that I kept silence, and went not out of the door-
35. Oh 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!
36. Surely I would carry it upon my shoulder; I would bind it unto me as a crown: