3. Is it not calamity to the unrighteous,and disaster to the workers of iniquity?
4. Doesn’t he see my ways,and count all my steps?
5. “If I have walked with falsehood,and my foot has hurried to deceit
6. (let me be weighed in an even balance,that God may know my integrity);
7. if my step has turned out of the way,if my heart walked after my eyes,if any defilement has stuck to my hands,
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 neighbor’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);