2. And what [is] the portion of God from above? And the inheritance of the Mighty from the heights?
3. Is not calamity to the perverse? And strangeness to workers of iniquity?
4. Doth not He see my ways, And all my steps number?
5. If I have walked with vanity, And my foot doth hasten to deceit,
6. He doth weigh me in righteous balances, And God doth know my integrity.
7. If my step doth turn aside from the way, And after mine eyes hath my heart gone, And to my hands cleaved hath blemish,
8. Let me sow--and another eat, And my products let be rooted out.
9. If my heart hath been enticed by woman, And by the opening of my neighbour I laid wait,
10. Grind to another let my wife, And over her let others bend.
11. For it [is] a wicked thing, and a judicial iniquity;
12. For a fire it [is], to destruction it consumeth, And among all mine increase doth take root,
13. If I despise the cause of my man-servant, And of my handmaid, In their contending with me,
14. Then what do I do when God ariseth? And when He doth inspect, What do I answer Him?
15. Did not He that made me in the womb make him? Yea, prepare us in the womb doth One.
16. If I withhold from pleasure the poor, And the eyes of the widow do consume,
17. And I do eat my morsel by myself, And the orphan hath not eat of it,
18. (But from my youth He grew up with me as [with] a father, And from the belly of my mother I am led.)