9. If my heart has been enticed by a woman,and I have lain in wait at my neighbor’s door,
10. then let my wife turn the millstone for another man,and may other men have sexual relations with her.
11. For I would have committed a shameful act,an iniquity to be judged.
12. For it is a fire that devours even to Destruction,and it would uproot all my harvest.
13. “If I have disregarded the right of my male servants or my female servantswhen they disputed with me,
14. then what will I do when God confronts me in judgment;when he intervenes, how will I respond to him?
15. Did not the one who made me in the womb make them?Did not the same one form us in the womb?
16. If I have refused to give the poor what they desired,or caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
17. If I ate my morsel of bread myself,and did not share any of it with orphans –
18. but from my youth I raised the orphan like a father,and from my mother’s wombI guided the widow!
19. If I have seen anyone about to perish for lack of clothing,or a poor man without a coat,
20. whose heart did not bless meas he warmed himself with the fleece of my sheep,
21. if I have raised my hand to vote against the orphan,when I saw my support in the court,