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Job 31:9-16 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

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:

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