21. if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, even when I saw that they would all help me in the gate;
22. then let my back fall from my shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from its joint.
23. For I feared destruction from God, against whose highness I could have no power.
24. If I have made gold my hope or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;
25. if I rejoiced because my wealth was being multiplied, and because my hand had gotten much;
26. if I beheld the sun when it shone or the moon walking in beauty;
27. and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my mouth kissed my hand;
28. this would also be a proven iniquity; for I should have denied the God that is sovereign.
29. If I rejoiced at the destruction of the one that hated me or lifted up myself when evil found him;
30. for I have never even suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse upon his soul;
31. when the servants of my tent said, Oh that we had of his flesh! We would never be satisfied.
32. The stranger did not lodge in the street, but I opened my doors to the traveller.
33. If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom;
34. if I feared a great multitude or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and did not go out of the door?
35. Oh that someone would hear me! Behold, my mark is, that the Almighty will testify for me, even though my adversary had written down the charges.