World English Bible

Job 31:22-34 World English Bible (WEB)

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—