Job 31:5–17

⁵If I have walked in falsehood

or my foot has rushed to deceit,

⁶let God weigh me with honest scales,

that He may know my integrity.

⁷If my steps have turned from the path,

if my heart has followed my eyes,

or if impurity has stuck to my hands,

⁸then may another eat what I have sown,

and may my crops be uprooted.

⁹If my heart has been enticed by my neighbor’s wife,

or I have lurked at his door,

¹⁰then may my own wife grind grain for another,

and may other men sleep with her.

¹¹For that would be a heinous crime,

an iniquity to be judged.

¹²For it is a fire that burns down to Abaddon;^a

it would root out my entire harvest.

¹³If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or maidservant

when they made a complaint against me,

¹⁴what will I do when God rises to judge?

How will I answer when called to account?

¹⁵Did not He who made me in the womb also make them?

Did not the same One form us in the womb?

¹⁶If I have denied the desires of the poor

or allowed the widow’s eyes to fail,

¹⁷if I have eaten my morsel alone,

not sharing it with the fatherless —