Job 31:19–34

¹⁹if I have seen one perish for lack of clothing,

or a needy man without a cloak,

²⁰if his heart has not blessed me^b

for warming him with the fleece of my sheep,

²¹if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless

because I saw that I had support in the gate,

²²then may my arm fall from my shoulder

and be torn from its socket.

²³For calamity from God terrifies me,

and His splendor I cannot overpower.

²⁴If I have put my trust in gold

or called pure gold my security,

²⁵if I have rejoiced in my great wealth

because my hand had gained so much,

²⁶if I have beheld the sun^c in its radiance

or the moon moving in splendor,

²⁷so that my heart was secretly enticed

and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth,

²⁸this would also be an iniquity to be judged,

for I would have denied God on high.

²⁹If I have rejoiced in my enemy’s ruin,

or exulted when evil befell him —

³⁰I have not allowed my mouth to sin

by asking for his life with a curse —

³¹if the men of my house have not said,

‘Who is there who has not had his fill?’—

³²but no stranger had to lodge on the street,

for my door has been open to the traveler —

³³if I have covered my transgressions like Adam^d

by hiding my guilt in my heart,

³⁴because I greatly feared the crowds

and the contempt of the clans terrified me,

so that I kept silent

and would not go outside —