3. Isn’t it calamity for the wickedand misfortune for those who do evil?
4. Doesn’t he see everything I doand every step I take?
5. “Have I lied to anyoneor deceived anyone?
6. Let God weigh me on the scales of justice,for he knows my integrity.
7. If I have strayed from his pathway,or if my heart has lusted for what my eyes have seen,or if I am guilty of any other sin,
8. then let someone else eat the crops I have planted.Let all that I have planted be uprooted.
9. “If my heart has been seduced by a woman,or if I have lusted for my neighbor’s wife,
10. then let my wife serve another man;let other men sleep with her.
11. For lust is a shameful sin,a crime that should be punished.
12. It is a fire that burns all the way to hell.It would wipe out everything I own.
13. “If I have been unfair to my male or female servantswhen they brought their complaints to me,
14. how could I face God?What could I say when he questioned me?
15. For God created both me and my servants.He created us both in the womb.
16. “Have I refused to help the poor,or crushed the hopes of widows?