8. then let me sow, and let another eat.Yes, let the produce of my field be rooted out.
9. “If my heart has been enticed to a woman,and I have laid wait at my neighbour’s door,
10. then let my wife grind for another,and let others sleep with her.
11. For that would be a heinous crime.Yes, it would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges:
12. For it is a fire that consumes to destruction,and would root out all my increase.
13. “If I have despised the cause of my male servantor of my female servant,when they contended with me;
14. What then shall I do when God rises up?When he visits, what shall I answer him?
15. Didn’t he who made me in the womb make him?Didn’t one fashion us in the womb?
16. “If I have withheld the poor from their desire,or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
17. or have eaten my morsel alone,and the fatherless has not eaten of it
18. (no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father,her I have guided from my mother’s womb);
19. if I have seen any perish for want of clothing,or that the needy had no covering;
20. if his heart hasn’t blessed me,if he hasn’t been warmed with my sheep’s fleece;
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 my arm be broken from the bone.
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;’