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?
35. O that I had someone hearing me! Here is my signature; let Shaddai answer me! As for the written communication that my adversary has written,