23. For calamity from God is a terror to me.Because his majesty, I can do nothing.
24. “If I have made gold my hope,and have said to the fine gold, ‘You are my confidence;’
25. If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great,and because my hand had gotten much;
26. if I have seen the sun when it shined,or the moon moving in splendour,
27. and my heart has been secretly enticed,and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth,
28. this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges;for I should have denied the God who is above.
29. “If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me,or lifted up myself when evil found him
30. (yes, I have not allowed my mouth to sinby asking his life with a curse);
31. if the men of my tent have not said,‘Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?’
32. (the foreigner has not camped in the street,but I have opened my doors to the traveller);
33. if like Adam I have covered my transgressions,by hiding my iniquity in my heart,
34. because I feared the great multitude,and the contempt of families terrified me,so that I kept silence, and didn’t go out of the door—
35. oh that I had one to hear me!Behold, here is my signature! Let the Almighty answer me!Let the accuser write my indictment!