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.
16. “I have never refused to help the poor. I always gave widows what they needed.
17. I have never been selfish with my food. I shared what I had with orphans.
18. All my life I have been like a father to orphans and have taken care of widows.
19. Whenever I found people suffering because they didn’t have clothes or saw a poor man with no coat,
20. I always gave them something to wear. I used the wool from my own sheep to make them warm. And they thanked me with all their heart.
21. I never threatened an orphan, even when I knew I had support in court.
22. If I ever did that, may my arm be pulled from its socket and fall from my shoulder!
23. But I didn’t do any of these bad things. I fear God’s punishment too much. His majesty scares me.
24. “I have never trusted in riches. I never said even to pure gold, ‘You are my hope.’