28. then these also would be sins to be judged,for I would have been unfaithful to God on high.
29. ‘If I have rejoiced at my enemy’s misfortuneor gloated over the trouble that came to him –
30. I have not allowed my mouth to sinby invoking a curse against their life –
31. if those of my household have never said,“Who has not been filled with Job’s meat?” –
32. but no stranger had to spend the night in the street,for my door was always open to the traveller –
33. if I have concealed my sin as people do,by hiding my guilt in my heart
34. because I so feared the crowdand so dreaded the contempt of the clansthat I kept silent and would not go outside –