Lexham English Bible

Job 31:21-34 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

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—

30. no, I have not allowed my mouth to sin, to ask his life with a curse.

31. Have the people of my tent not said, ‘O that someone had not been satisfied with his meat’?

32. An alien has not lodged in the street; I have opened my door to the traveler.

33. Have I concealed my transgressions as other human beings to hide my iniquity in my bosom

34. because I dreaded the great multitude, and the contempt of clans terrified me, so that I kept quiet, I did not go out of the doorway?