12. Indeed, that is a fire that will consume up to Abaddon, and it would uproot all my crop.
13. “If I have rejected my male or female slave’s case when their complaint was against me,
14. then what shall I do when God rises up? And when he enquires, how shall I answer him?
15. Did not he who made me in the womb make them? And did not one fashion us in the womb?
16. “If I have withheld the desire of the poor from them, or I have caused the widow’s eyes to fail,
17. or I have eaten my morsel alone, and the orphan has not eaten from it
18. (for from my childhood he grew up with me like a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided her),
19. if I have seen the one who perishes because of no clothing or that there is no covering for the poor,
20. if his loins have not blessed me, or by means of my sheep’s fleece he has warmed himself,
21. if I have raised my hand against an orphan because I saw my supporters at the gate,
22. then let my shoulder blade fall from my shoulder, and let my arm be broken from its socket.
23. Indeed, the disaster from God was a dread for me, and I was powerless because of his majesty.
24. “If I have made gold my trust, or I have called fine gold my security,
25. if I have rejoiced because my wealth was great or because my hand found a fortune,
26. if I looked at the sun when it shone or at the moon moving in splendor,
27. and I was secretly enticed, and my hand threw them a kiss,
28. this also is an iniquity to be judged, for I have deceived God above.
29. “If I have rejoiced at the ruin of the one who hated me or have exulted when evil overtook him—