22. Then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.
23. For calamity from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his excellency I could do nothing.
24. If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;
25. If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much;
26. If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;
27. And my heart hath been secretly enticed, and my mouth hath kissed my hand:
28. This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judges: for I should have lied to God that is above.
29. If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him;
30. (Yea, I suffered not my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse;)
31. If the men of my tent said not, Who can find one that hath not been satisfied with his flesh?
32. The stranger did not lodge in the street; but I opened my doors to the traveller;
33. If like Adam I covered my transgressions, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom;
34. Because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and went not out of the door--
35. Oh that I had one to hear me! (lo, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me;) and that I had the indictment which mine adversary hath written!