²⁴ “If I have put my trust in gold^(A)
    or said to pure gold, ‘You are my security,’^(B)
25 if I have rejoiced over my great wealth,^(C)
    the fortune my hands had gained,^(D)
26 if I have regarded the sun^(E) in its radiance
    or the moon^(F) moving in splendor,
²⁷ so that my heart was secretly enticed^(G)
    and my hand offered them a kiss of homage,^(H)
28 then these also would be sins to be judged,^(I)
    for I would have been unfaithful to God on high.^(J)

²⁹ “If I have rejoiced at my enemy’s misfortune^(K)
    or gloated over the trouble that came to him^(L)—
³⁰ I have not allowed my mouth to sin
    by invoking a curse against their life^(M)—
³¹ if those of my household have never said,
    ‘Who has not been filled with Job’s meat?’^(N)—
³² but no stranger had to spend the night in the street,
    for my door was always open to the traveler^(O)—
³³ if I have concealed^(P) my sin as people do,^[a]
    by hiding^(Q) my guilt in my heart
³⁴ because I so feared the crowd^(R)
    and so dreaded the contempt of the clans
    that I kept silent^(S) and would not go outside—

³⁵ (“Oh, that I had someone to hear me!^(T)
    I sign now my defense—let the Almighty answer me;
    let my accuser^(U) put his indictment in writing.
³⁶ Surely I would wear it on my shoulder,^(V)
    I would put it on like a crown.^(W)
37 I would give him an account of my every step;^(X)
    I would present it to him as to a ruler.^(Y))—

³⁸ “if my land cries out against me^(Z)
    and all its furrows are wet^(AA) with tears,
³⁹ if I have devoured its yield without payment^(AB)
    or broken the spirit of its tenants,^(AC)
40 then let briers^(AD) come up instead of wheat
    and stinkweed^(AE) instead of barley.”