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¹³If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;
¹⁴What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?
¹⁵Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
¹⁶If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
¹⁷Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;
¹⁸(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother’s womb;)
¹⁹If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;
²⁰If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
²¹If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:
²²Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.
²³For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.
²⁴If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;
²⁵If I rejoice because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much;
²⁶If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;
²⁷And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand:
²⁸This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.
²⁹If I rejoice at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:
³⁰Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.
³¹If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.
³²The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller.
³³If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:
³⁴Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door?
³⁵Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.
³⁶Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.
³⁷I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.
³⁸If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;
³⁹If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:
⁴⁰Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.