2. What has God above promised those who do this?What has God All-Powerful on high planned for them?
3. It is ruin for the evil people.It is disaster for those who do wrong.
4. God sees my ways,and he counts every step I take.
5. “I have not been a dishonest person.I have not lied to others.
6. Let God weigh me on honest scales.Then he will know I have done nothing wrong.
7. I have not turned away from doing what is right.My heart has not been led by my eyes to do wrong.My hands have not been made unclean.
8. If I have done these things, then let other people eat what I have planted.And let my crops be plowed up.
9. “I have not desired another woman.I have never waited at my neighbor’s door to commit adultery with his wife.
10. If I have done these things, then let my wife grind another man’s grain.And let other men have physical relations with her.
11. Sexual sin is shameful.It is a sin which must be punished.
12. It is like a fire that burns and destroys forever.It would destroy all I have.
13. “I have been fair to my male and female slaveswhen they had a complaint against me.
14. If I have not, how could I tell God what I did?What will I answer when God asks me to explain what I’ve done?
15. God made me in my mother’s womb, and he also made them.The same God formed both of us in our mothers’ wombs.
16. “I have never refused anything the poor wanted.I have never let widows give up hope while looking for help.
17. I have not kept my food to myself.I have also given it to the orphans.
18. Since I was young, I have been like a father to the orphans.And from my birth I guided the widows.