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Job 31:29-39 World Messianic Bible British Edition (WMBBE)

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!

36. Surely I would carry it on my shoulder;and I would bind it to me as a crown.

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

38. If my land cries out against me,and its furrows weep together;

39. if I have eaten its fruits without money,or have caused its owners to lose their life,

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