13. “If I have denied justice to my male or female servant when they disputed with me,
14. then what could I do when God rises up; when He visits, how will I answer Him?
15. Did not He who made me in the womb, make him? Did not the same one form us in the womb?
16. “If I withheld the desires of the poor or let the eyes of the widow to fail,
17. if I ate my morsel of bread myself, without letting an orphan eat of it
18. (but from my youth I reared him as a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided her),
19. if I have seen anyone perishing for lack of clothing or the needy without a covering,
20. if his heart did not bless me as he warmed himself with the fleece of my sheep,
21. if I have raised my hand against the orphan, when I saw my support in the gate,
22. then let my shoulder blade fall from my shoulder, and let my arm be broken off at the joint.
23. For calamity from God was a terror to me, and because of His majesty, I could do nothing.
24. “If I have put my confidence in gold or said to fine gold, ‘You are my security,’
25. if I rejoiced because of my great wealth or because of the abundance my hand acquired,
26. if I looked at the sun when it shines or the moon moving in splendor,
27. so that my heart was secretly enticed, and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth,
28. then this also would be iniquity to be judged, for I would have denied God above.
29. “If I rejoiced at my enemy’s misfortune or gloated because calamity found him—
30. I have not allowed my mouth to sin, by asking for his life with a curse—
31. if anyone in my household has ever said, ‘Who has not been filled with his meat?’
32. —but no stranger had to spend the night outside for my door was open to the traveler—