8. Then let me sow and let another eat: and let my offspring be rooted out.
9. If my heart hath been deceived upon a woman, and if I have laid wait at my friend's door:
10. Let my wife be the harlot of another, and let other men lie with her.
11. For this is a heinous crime, and a most grievous iniquity.
12. It is a fire that devoureth even to destruction, and rooteth up all things that spring.
13. If I have despised to abide judgment with my manservant, or my maidservant, when they had any controversy against me:
14. For what shall I do when God shall rise to judge? and when he shall examine, what shall I answer him?
15. Did not he that made me in the womb make him also: and did not one and the same form me in the womb?
16. If I have denied to the poor what they desired, and have made the eyes of the widow wait:
17. If I have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof:
18. (For from my infancy mercy grew up with me: and it came out with me from my mother's womb:)
19. If I have despised him that was perishing for want of clothing, and the poor man that had no covering: