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Job 31:5-16 American Standard Version (ASV)

5. If I have walked with falsehood, And my foot hath hasted to deceit

6. (Let me be weighed in an even balance, That God may know mine integrity);

7. If my step hath turned out of the way, And my heart walked after mine eyes, And if any spot hath cleaved to my hands:

8. Then let me sow, and let another eat; Yea, let the produce of my field be rooted out.

9. If my heart hath been enticed unto a woman, And I have laid wait at my neighbor’s door;

10. Then let my wife grind unto another, And let others bow down upon her.

11. For that were a heinous crime; Yea, it were an iniquity to be punished by the judges:

12. For it is a fire that consumeth unto Destruction, And would root out all mine increase.

13. If I have despised the cause of my man-servant or of my maid-servant, When they contended with me;

14. What then shall I do when God riseth up? And when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?

15. Did not he that made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb?

16. If I have withheld the poor from their desire, Or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

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