A covenant I made with my eyes, and I will not take notice upon a virgin.
And what portion is from the God above, and inheritance what fit is from the highest?
Woe, destruction to the unjust, and alienation to the one committing lawlessness.
Will he not see my way, and all my footsteps count out?
But if I was going with jokesters, or even hurrying my foot for treachery;
(For I stand in yoke balance scale a just, knew and the lord my innocence);
If turned aside my foot from out of the way, or if even my eye follows after my heart, and if even my hands touched bribes;
May I sow, then, and others eat; rootless and may I become upon the earth.
If followed after my heart the wife of another man, and if laid in wait I had at her doors;
May then even my wife another; and my infants may be humbled.
For the rage of anger is unrestrained in the defiling of a man's wife.
A fire for it is burning upon all the parts; and whomever it may come upon from the roots it destroyed.
And if even I treated as worthless the equity due my male attendant or female attendant, in their pleading with me,
what then shall I do if chastisement for me shall appoint the lord? and if also he should visit, what answer shall I make?
Were they not even as I, born in a womb? and these were born, and we were born in the same belly.
But the disabled whatever need at some time or other they had missed not; of the widow and the eye I wasted not.
And even if my morsel I ate alone, and not with an orphan I shared of it,
(for from my youth I nourished them as a father, and from the womb of my mother I guided);
and even if I overlooked the naked perishing, and clothed him not;
and the disabled, unless they blessed me, and of the shearing wool of my lambs were not heated their shoulders;
and if I lifted up against an orphan a hand, (relying that much to me help remained);
may separate then my shoulder from the collar-bone, and my arm from the elbow may be broken.
For the fear of the lord constrained me; from his concern I shall not endure.
If I ordered up gold for my strength; and if even stone very costly I relied upon;
and even if gladness great in riches was coming to me; and if also upon innumerable things I put my hand;
(or do we not see sun the shining subsiding, and the moon waning? no power for to them there is)?
And if was deceived in private my heart; and if hand placing my upon my mouth I was fond of;
then let this be so to me lawlessness as the greatest imputed; for I lied before the lord the highest.
And even if gratified I became at the calamitous downfall of my enemies; and said in my heart, Well done!
Let hear then my ear my curse, and may I then be a common topic then by my people for my inflicting evil.
And if even often said my female attendants, Who ever might give to us of his flesh to satisfy? exceedingly of my being gracious.
Outside for lodged not the stranger, and my door to all that came was open.
And if even of sins, unintentionally I hid my sin,
(for I was not diverted multitude by a great to not openly declare before them); and if even I allowed a disabled man to go forth from my door bosom with an empty,
(oh that there might be given one to hear me), of the hand but of the lord unless I was in awe; and as to a writ which I had against anyone,
upon even my shoulders putting it on a crown I read it.
And unless tearing it I gave it back nothing having received from a debtor.
If against me perhaps the earth moaned, and even if her furrows wept with one accord;
and even if its strength I ate alone without value; and even if of the life of the master of the land in taking anything I fretted him;
Instead of wheat then may there come forth to me nettles; and instead of barley a bush. And Job ceased words.