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"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"If I have walked in vanity, and my foot hath made haste to deceit: "},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Let him weigh me in a just balance, and let God know my simplicity. "},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"If my step hath turned out of the way, and if my heart hath followed my eyes, and if a spot hath cleaved to my hands: "},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Then let me sow and let another eat: and let my offspring be rooted out. "},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"If my heart hath been deceived upon a woman, and if I have laid wait at my friend's door: "},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Let my wife be the harlot of another, and let other men lie with her. "},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"For this is a heinous crime, and a most grievous iniquity. "},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"It is a fire that devoureth even to destruction, and rooteth up all things that spring. "},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"If I have despised to abide judgment with my manservant, or my maidservant, when they had any controversy against me: "},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"For what shall I do when God shall rise to judge? and when he shall examine, what shall I answer him? "},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Did not he that made me in the womb make him also: and did not one and the same form me in the womb? "},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"If I have denied to the poor what they desired, and have made the eyes of the widow wait: "},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"If I have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof: "},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"(For from my infancy mercy grew up with me: and it came out with me from my mother's womb :) "},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"If I have despised him that was perishing for want of clothing, and the poor man that had no covering: "},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"If his sides have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep: "},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, even when I saw myself superior in the gate: "},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"Let my shoulder fall from its joint, and let my arm with its bones be broken. "},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"For I have always feared God as waves swelling over me, and his weight I was not able to bear. "},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"If I have thought gold my strength, and have said to fine gold: My confidence: "},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"If I have rejoiced over my great riches, and because my hand had gotten much. "},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"If I beheld the sun when it shined, and the moon going in brightness: "},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"And my heart in secret hath rejoiced, and I have kissed my hand with my mouth: "},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"Which is a very great iniquity, and a denial against the most high God. "},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"If I have been glad at the downfall of him that hated me, and have rejoiced that evil had found him. "},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"For I have not given my mouth to sin, by wishing a curse to his soul. "},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"If the men of my tabernacle have not said: Who will give us of his flesh that we may be filled? "},{"verseNumber":32,"text":"The stranger did not stay without, my door was open to the traveller. "},{"verseNumber":33,"text":"If as a man I have hid my sin, and have concealed my iniquity in my bosom. "},{"verseNumber":34,"text":"If I have been afraid at a very great multitude, and the contempt of kinsmen hath terrified me: and I have not rather held my peace, and not gone out of the door. "},{"verseNumber":35,"text":"Who would grant me a hearer, that the Almighty may hear my desire; and that he himself that judgeth would write a book, "},{"verseNumber":36,"text":"That I may carry it on my shoulder, and put it about me as a crown? "},{"verseNumber":37,"text":"At every step of mine I would pronounce it, and offer it as to a prince. "},{"verseNumber":38,"text":"If my land cry against me, and with it the furrows thereof mourn: "},{"verseNumber":39,"text":"If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, and have afflicted the soul of the tillers thereof: "},{"verseNumber":40,"text":"Let thistles grow up to me instead of wheat, and thorns instead of barley. 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