American Standard Version

Job 31:33-38 American Standard Version (ASV)

33. If like Adam I have covered my transgressions, By hiding mine iniquity in my bosom,

34. Because I feared the great multitude, And the contempt of families terrified me, So that I kept silence, and went not out of the door-

35. Oh that I had one to hear me! (Lo, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me); And that I had the indictment which mine adversary hath written!

36. Surely I would carry it upon my shoulder; I would bind it unto me as a crown:

37. I would declare unto him the number of my steps; As a prince would I go near unto him.

38. If my land crieth out against me, And the furrows thereof weep together;