4. Does he not see my ways and count all my steps?
5. If I have walked with falsehood or if my foot has hastened to deceit,
6. let me be weighed in a just balance, that God may know my integrity.
7. If my step has turned out of the way and my heart walked after my eyes and if any blot has cleaved to my hands,
8. then let me sow, and let another eat, and let my offspring be rooted out.
9. If my heart has been deceived regarding a woman, or if I have laid in wait at my neighbour’s door,
10. then let my wife grind for another, and let others bow down upon her.
11. For this is lewdness and iniquity that is proven.
12. For it is a fire that consumes unto hell and would root out all my increase.
13. If I had despised the right of my manslave or of my maidslave, when they contended with me;
14. what then would I do when God rises up? And when he visits, what would I answer him?
15. Did not he that made me in the belly also make him? And did not the same one fashion us in the womb?
16. If I have disturbed the desire of the poor or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
17. or have eaten my morsel alone and the fatherless has not eaten thereof;
18. (for from my youth the fatherless was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided the widow from my mother’s womb)
19. if I have seen any perish for want of clothing or any needy without a covering;
20. if his loins have not blessed me and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
21. if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, even when I saw that they would all help me in the gate;