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Job 31:4-13 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

4. Does he not see my ways and count all my steps?

5. “If I have walked with falseness, and my foot has hastened to deceit,

6. let him weigh me in the balance of justice, and let God know my blamelessness.

7. If my steps have turned aside from the way, and my heart has walked after my eyes, and my hand has clung to a spot,

8. let me sow, and let another eat, and let my crops be rooted out.

9. “If my heart has been enticed by a woman, and at my neighbor’s doorway I have lain in wait,

10. let my wife grind for another, and let other men kneel over her,

11. for that is a shameful act, and that is a criminal offense.

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,