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Job 31:21-30 Revised Version 1885 (RV1885)

21. If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate:

22. Then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.

23. For calamity from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his excellency I could do nothing.

24. If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;

25. If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much;

26. If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;

27. And my heart hath been secretly enticed, and my mouth hath kissed my hand:

28. This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judges: for I should have lied to God that is above.

29. If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him;

30. (Yea, I suffered not my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse;)

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