²⁰ If we had forgotten^(A) the name of our God
    or spread out our hands to a foreign god,^(B)

⁹ You shall have no foreign god^(A) among you;
    you shall not worship any god other than me.

¹³ “Yet if you devote your heart^(A) to him
    and stretch out your hands^(B) to him,^(C)

³¹ Envoys will come from Egypt;^(A)
    Cush^[a](B) will submit herself to God.

¹¹ They forgot what he had done,^(A)
    the wonders he had shown them.

¹⁷ All this came upon us,
    though we had not forgotten^(A) you;
    we had not been false to your covenant.

³ Lord my God, if I have done this
    and there is guilt on my hands^(A)—
⁴ if I have repaid my ally with evil
    or without cause^(B) have robbed my foe—
⁵ then let my enemy pursue and overtake^(C) me;
    let him trample my life to the ground^(D)
    and make me sleep in the dust.^[a](E)

⁵ “If I have walked with falsehood
    or my foot has hurried after deceit^(A)—
⁶ let God weigh me^(B) in honest scales^(C)
    and he will know that I am blameless^(D)—
⁷ if my steps have turned from the path,^(E)
    if my heart has been led by my eyes,
    or if my hands^(F) have been defiled,^(G)
8 then may others eat what I have sown,^(H)
    and may my crops be uprooted.^(I)

⁹ “If my heart has been enticed^(J) by a woman,^(K)
    or if I have lurked at my neighbor’s door,
¹⁰ then may my wife grind^(L) another man’s grain,
    and may other men sleep with her.^(M)
11 For that would have been wicked,^(N)
    a sin to be judged.^(O)
12 It is a fire^(P) that burns to Destruction^[a];^(Q)
    it would have uprooted my harvest.^(R)

¹³ “If I have denied justice to any of my servants,^(S)
    whether male or female,
    when they had a grievance against me,^(T)
14 what will I do when God confronts me?^(U)
    What will I answer when called to account?^(V)
15 Did not he who made me in the womb make them?^(W)
    Did not the same one form us both within our mothers?^(X)

¹⁶ “If I have denied the desires of the poor^(Y)
    or let the eyes of the widow^(Z) grow weary,^(AA)
17 if I have kept my bread to myself,
    not sharing it with the fatherless^(AB)—
¹⁸ but from my youth I reared them as a father would,
    and from my birth I guided the widow^(AC)—
¹⁹ if I have seen anyone perishing for lack of clothing,^(AD)
    or the needy^(AE) without garments,
²⁰ and their hearts did not bless me^(AF)
    for warming them with the fleece^(AG) from my sheep,
²¹ if I have raised my hand against the fatherless,^(AH)
    knowing that I had influence in court,^(AI)
22 then let my arm fall from the shoulder,
    let it be broken off at the joint.^(AJ)
23 For I dreaded destruction from God,^(AK)
    and for fear of his splendor^(AL) I could not do such things.^(AM)

²⁴ “If I have put my trust in gold^(AN)
    or said to pure gold, ‘You are my security,’^(AO)
25 if I have rejoiced over my great wealth,^(AP)
    the fortune my hands had gained,^(AQ)
26 if I have regarded the sun^(AR) in its radiance
    or the moon^(AS) moving in splendor,
²⁷ so that my heart was secretly enticed^(AT)
    and my hand offered them a kiss of homage,^(AU)
28 then these also would be sins to be judged,^(AV)
    for I would have been unfaithful to God on high.^(AW)

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

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

³⁸ “if my land cries out against me^(BM)
    and all its furrows are wet^(BN) with tears,
³⁹ if I have devoured its yield without payment^(BO)
    or broken the spirit of its tenants,^(BP)
40 then let briers^(BQ) come up instead of wheat
    and stinkweed^(BR) instead of barley.”