New International Version

Job 31:21-31 New International Version (NIV)

21. if I have raised my hand against the fatherless, knowing that I had influence in court,

22. then let my arm fall from the shoulder, let it be broken off at the joint.

23. For I dreaded destruction from God, and for fear of his splendor I could not do such things.

24. “If I have put my trust in gold or said to pure gold, ‘You are my security,’

25. if I have rejoiced over my great wealth, the fortune my hands had gained,

26. if I have regarded the sun in its radiance or the moon moving in splendor,

27. so that my heart was secretly enticed and my hand offered them a kiss of homage,

28. then these also would be sins to be judged, for I would have been unfaithful to God on high.

29. “If I have rejoiced at my enemy’s misfortune or gloated over the trouble that came to him—

30. I have not allowed my mouth to sin by invoking a curse against their life—

31. if those of my household have never said, ‘Who has not been filled with Job’s meat?’—