5. “If I have walked with falseness, and my foot has hastened to deceit,
6. let him weigh me in the balance of justice, and let God know my blamelessness.
7. If my steps have turned aside from the way, and my heart has walked after my eyes, and my hand has clung to a spot,
8. let me sow, and let another eat, and let my crops be rooted out.
9. “If my heart has been enticed by a woman, and at my neighbor’s doorway I have lain in wait,
10. let my wife grind for another, and let other men kneel over her,
11. for that is a shameful act, and that is a criminal offense.
12. Indeed, that is a fire that will consume up to Abaddon, and it would uproot all my crop.
13. “If I have rejected my male or female slave’s case when their complaint was against me,
14. then what shall I do when God rises up? And when he enquires, how shall I answer him?
15. Did not he who made me in the womb make them? And did not one fashion us in the womb?
16. “If I have withheld the desire of the poor from them, or I have caused the widow’s eyes to fail,
17. or I have eaten my morsel alone, and the orphan has not eaten from it
18. (for from my childhood he grew up with me like a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided her),
19. if I have seen the one who perishes because of no clothing or that there is no covering for the poor,
20. if his loins have not blessed me, or by means of my sheep’s fleece he has warmed himself,
21. if I have raised my hand against an orphan because I saw my supporters at the gate,