32. In the street doth not lodge a stranger, My doors to the traveller I open.
33. If I have covered as Adam my transgressions, To hide in my bosom mine iniquity,
34. Because I fear a great multitude, And the contempt of families doth affright me, Then I am silent, I go not out of the opening.
35. Who giveth to me a hearing? lo, my mark. The Mighty One doth answer me, And a bill hath mine adversary written.
36. If not--on my shoulder I take it up, I bind it a crown on myself.
37. The number of my steps I tell Him, As a leader I approach Him.
38. If against me my land doth cry out, And together its furrows weep,
39. If its strength I consumed without money, And the life of its possessors, I have caused to breathe out,
40. Instead of wheat let a thorn go forth, And instead of barley a useless weed! The words of