30. I have not allowed my mouth to sinby invoking a curse against their life –
31. if those of my household have never said,“Who has not been filled with Job’s meat?” –
32. but no stranger had to spend the night in the street,for my door was always open to the traveller –
33. if I have concealed my sin as people do,by hiding my guilt in my heart
34. because I so feared the crowdand so dreaded the contempt of the clansthat I kept silent and would not go outside –
35. (‘Oh, that I had someone to hear me!I sign now my defence – let the Almighty answer me;let my accuser put his indictment in writing.
36. Surely I would wear it on my shoulder,I would put it on like a crown.