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Job 31:31-40 Revised Version 1885 (RV1885)

31. If the men of my tent said not, Who can find one that hath not been satisfied with his flesh?

32. The stranger did not lodge in the street; but I opened my doors to the traveller;

33. If like Adam I covered my transgressions, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom;

34. Because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and went not out of the door--

35. Oh that I had one to hear me! (lo, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me;) and that I had the indictment which mine adversary hath written!

36. Surely I would carry it upon my shoulder; I would bind it unto me as a crown.

37. I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.

38. If my land cry out against me, and the furrows thereof weep together;

39. If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:

40. Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.

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