3. He sends trouble to the wicked and disaster to those who do wrong.
4. God is the one who knows what I do and sees every step I take.
5. “I have not lied to anyone. I never tried to cheat people.
6. If God would use accurate scales, he would know that I am innocent.
7. If I ever stepped off the right path, if my eyes led my heart to do evil, or if my hands are dirty with sin,
8. then let others eat what I planted. Let my crops be pulled up by the roots.
9. “If I have desired another woman or waited at my neighbor’s door to sin with his wife,
10. then let my wife serve someone else, and let other men sleep with her.
11. To do such a thing would be shameful, a sin that must be punished.
12. Such sin is like a fire that burns until it destroys everything. It would completely ruin my life’s work.
13. “If I refused to be fair to my slaves when they had a complaint against me,
14. then what will I do when I must face God? What will I say when he asks me to explain what I did?
15. The one who made me in my mother’s womb also made them. God shaped us all inside our mothers.