New King James Version

Job 31:28-34 New King James Version (NKJV)

28. This also would be an iniquity deserving of judgment,For I would have denied God who is above.

29. “If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me,Or lifted myself up when evil found him

30. (Indeed I have not allowed my mouth to sinBy asking for a curse on his soul);

31. If the men of my tent have not said,‘Who is there that has not been satisfied with his meat?’

32. (But no sojourner had to lodge in the street,For I have opened my doors to the traveler);

33. If I have covered my transgressions as Adam,By hiding my iniquity in my bosom,

34. Because I feared the great multitude,And dreaded the contempt of families,So that I kept silenceAnd did not go out of the door—