8. then let me sow and another eat, and let my crops be uprooted.
9. If my heart has been enticed by a woman, or I have lurked at my neighbor’s door,
10. then let my wife grind for another and let others sleep with her.
11. For that would be a shameful act, an iniquity to be judged.
12. For it is a fire that devours to destruction, and uproots all my harvest.
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.