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Job 31:32-40 English Standard Version (ESV)

32. (the sojourner has not lodged in the street;I have opened my doors to the traveler),

33. if I have concealed my transgressions as others doby hiding my iniquity in my heart,

34. because I stood in great fear of the multitude,and the contempt of families terrified me,so that I kept silence, and did not go out of doors—

35. Oh, that I had one to hear me!(Here is my signature! Let the Almighty answer me!)Oh, that I had the indictment written by my adversary!

36. Surely I would carry it on my shoulder;I would bind it on me as a crown;

37. I would give him an account of all my steps;like a prince I would approach him.

38. “If my land has cried out against meand its furrows have wept together,

39. if I have eaten its yield without paymentand made its owners breathe their last,

40. let thorns grow instead of wheat,and foul weeds instead of barley.”The words of Job are ended.

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