5. If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot hath hasted to deceit,
6. (Let me be weighed in an even balance, and +God will take knowledge of my blamelessness;)
7. If my step have turned out of the way, and my heart followed mine eyes, and if any blot cleaveth to my hands;
8. Let me sow, and another eat; and let mine offspring be rooted out.
9. If my heart have been enticed unto a woman, so that I laid wait at my neighbour's door,
10. Let my wife grind for another, and let others bow down upon her.
11. For this is an infamy; yea, it is an iniquity to be judged by the judges:
12. For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.
13. If I have despised the cause of my bondman or of my bondmaid, when they contended with me,
14. What then should I do when ·God riseth up? and if he visited, what should I answer him?
15. Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not One fashion us in the womb?
16. If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or caused the eyes of the widow to fail;