8. ⌊then⌋ let someone else eat what I have planted,and let my crops be uprooted.
9. “If I have been seduced by a womanor I have secretly waited near my neighbor’s door,
10. ⌊then⌋ let my wife grind for another ⌊man⌋,and let other ⌊men⌋ kneel over her.
11. That would be a scandal,and that would be a criminal offense.
12. It would be a fire that burns even in Abaddon.It would uproot my entire harvest.
13. “If I have abused the rights of my servants, male or female,when they have disagreed with me,
14. then what could I do if God rises up?If he examines me, how could I answer him?
15. Didn’t he who made me in my mother’s belly make them?Didn’t the same God form us in the womb?
16. “If I have refused the requests of the pooror made a widow’s eyes stop ⌊looking for help⌋,
17. or have eaten my food alonewithout letting the orphan eat any of it. . . .
18. (From my youth the orphan grew up with meas though I were his father,and from my birth I treated the widow kindly.)
19. If I have seen anyone die because he had no clothesor a poor person going naked. . . .