Job 31:5-17

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⁵ “If I have walked with falsehood
    and my foot has hastened to deceit;
⁶ (Let me be ^(A)weighed in a just balance,
    and let God know my integrity!)
⁷ if my step has turned aside from the way
    and ^(B)my heart has gone after my eyes,
    and if any ^(C)spot has stuck to my hands,
⁸ then let me ^(D)sow, and another eat,
    and let what grows for me^[a] be rooted out.

⁹ “If my heart has been enticed toward a woman,
    and I have ^(E)lain in wait at my neighbor's door,
¹⁰ then let my wife ^(F)grind for another,
    and let others ^(G)bow down on her.
¹¹ For that would be a heinous crime;
    that would be an iniquity ^(H)to be punished by the judges;
¹² for that would be a fire ^(I)that consumes as far as Abaddon,
    and it would burn to the root all my increase.

¹³ “If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or my maidservant,
    when they brought a complaint against me,
¹⁴ what then shall I do when God rises up?
    When he ^(J)makes inquiry, what shall I answer him?
¹⁵ Did ^(K)not he who made me in the womb make him?
    And did not one fashion us in the womb?

¹⁶ “If I have ^(L)withheld anything that the poor desired,
    or have ^(M)caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
¹⁷ or have eaten my morsel alone,
    and the fatherless has not eaten of it