18. (no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, her I have guided from my mother’s womb);
19. if I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;
20. if his heart hasn’t blessed me, if he hasn’t been warmed with my sheep’s fleece;
21. if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,
22. then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from the bone.
23. For calamity from God is a terror to me. Because his majesty, I can do nothing.
24. “If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, ‘You are my confidence;’
25. If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;
26. if I have seen the sun when it shined, or the moon moving in splendor,
27. and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth,
28. this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges; for I should have denied the God who is above.
29. “If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him
30. (yes, I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse);
31. if the men of my tent have not said, ‘Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?’
32. (the foreigner has not camped in the street, but I have opened my doors to the traveler);
33. if like Adam I have covered my transgressions, by hiding my iniquity in my heart,
34. because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and didn’t go out of the door—