3. Is not destruction to the wicked? And a disaster to the poalei aven (workers of wrong)?
4. Doth not He see my derech, and count all my steps?
5. If I have walked with shav (vanity, falsehood), or if my regel hath hasted to mirmah (deceit),
6. Let me be weighed in scales of tzedek that Eloah may know mine tom (integrity).
7. If my step hath turned out of the derech, and mine lev walked after mine eyes, and if any mum hath cleaved to mine hands,
8. Then let me sow, and let acher (another) eat; yea, let my harvest be uprooted.
9. If mine lev have been deceived by an isha, or if I have lurked at petach (doorway) of my re'a;
10. Then let my isha grind for another, and let another kneel over her.
11. For this is a heinous crime; yea, it is an avon to be brought before judges.
12. For it is an eish that consumeth to Abaddon, and would root out all mine increase.
13. If I did despise the mishpat (cause) of my eved or of my amah, when they contended with me,
14. What then shall I do when El riseth up? And when He visiteth, what shall I answer Him?
15. Did not He that made me in the beten make them? And did not Echad fashion us in the rechem?
16. If I have withheld the poor from their chefetz (desire), or have caused the eyes of the almanah to grow weary,
17. Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the yatom hath not eaten thereof;
18. For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with an av, and I have guided her from beten immi;
19. If I have seen any oved (one perishing) for want of clothing, or any evyon (needy) without covering,
20. If his heart did not bless me for warming him with the giz (fleece) of my sheep,
21. If I have lifted up my yad against the yatom, when I saw my influence in the sha'ar (gate, court);