9. If mine heart have been enticed unto a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbour's door:
10. Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.
11. For that were an heinous crime; yea, it were an iniquity to be punished by the judges:
12. For it is a fire that consumeth unto Destruction, and would root out all mine increase.
13. If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me:
14. What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?
15. Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
16. If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
17. Or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;
18. (Nay, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, and I have been her guide from my mother's womb;)