Part 27

18:031:008 Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.

18:031:009 If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour's door;

18:031:010 Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.

18:031:011 For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.

18:031:012 For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.

18:031:013 If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;

18:031:014 What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?

18:031:015 Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?

18:031:016 If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

18:031:017 Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;

18:031:018 (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)

18:031:019 If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;

18:031:020 If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

18:031:021 If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:

18:031:022 Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.

18:031:023 For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.

18:031:024 If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;

18:031:025 If I rejoice because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much;

18:031:026 If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;

18:031:027 And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand:

18:031:028 This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.

18:031:029 If I rejoice at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:

18:031:030 Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.

18:031:031 If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.

18:031:032 The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller.

18:031:033 If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:

18:031:034 Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door?

18:031:035 Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.