031:013 "If I have despised the cause of my male servant or of my female servant, when they contended with me; 031:014 What then shall I do when God rises up? When he visits, what shall I answer him? 031:015 Didn't he who made me in the womb make him? Didn't one fashion us in the womb? 031:016 "If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail, 031:017 or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it 031:018 (no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, her have I guided from my mother's womb); 031:019 if I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering; 031:020 if his heart hasn't blessed me, if he hasn't been warmed with my sheep's fleece; 031:021 if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate, 031:022 then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from the bone. 031:023 For calamity from God is a terror to me. Because his majesty, I can do nothing. 031:024 "If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, 'You are my confidence;' 031:025 If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much; 031:026 if I have seen the sun when it shined, or the moon moving in splendor, 031:027 and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth, 031:028 this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges; for I should have denied the God who is above. 031:029 "If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him; 031:030 (yes, I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse); 031:031 if the men of my tent have not said, 'Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?' 031:032 (the foreigner has not lodged in the street, but I have opened my doors to the traveler); 031:033 if like Adam I have covered my transgressions, by hiding my iniquity in my heart, 031:034 because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and didn't go out of the door-- 031:035 oh that I had one to hear me! (behold, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me); let the accuser write my indictment! 031:036 Surely I would carry it on my shoulder; and I would bind it to me as a crown. 031:037 I would declare to him the number of my steps. as a prince would I go near to him. 031:038 If my land cries out against me, and the furrows of it weep together; 031:039 if I have eaten the fruits of it without money, or have caused the owners of it to lose their life, 031:040 let briars grow instead of wheat, and stinkweed instead of barley." The words of Job are ended.