²⁰ If we have forgotten the name of our God, Or spread forth our hands to a strange god;

⁹ There shall no strange god be in thee; Neither shalt thou worship any foreign god.

³¹ Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall haste to stretch out her hands unto God.

¹³ If thou set thy heart aright, And stretch out thy hands toward him;

¹¹ And they forgat his doings, And his wondrous works that he had showed them.

¹⁷ All this is come upon us; Yet have we not forgotten thee, Neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.

³ O Jehovah my God, if I have done this; If there be iniquity in my hands;

⁴ If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (Yea, I have delivered him that without cause was mine adversary;)

⁵ Let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it; Yea, let him tread my life down to the earth, And lay my glory in the dust. Selah

⁵ If I have walked with falsehood, And my foot hath hasted to deceit;

⁶ (Let me be weighed in an even balance, That God may know mine integrity);

⁷ If my step hath turned out of the way, And my heart walked after mine eyes, And if any spot hath cleaved to my hands:

⁸ Then let me sow, and let another eat; Yea, let the produce of my field be rooted out.

⁹ If my heart hath been enticed unto a woman, And I have laid wait at my neighbor's door;

¹⁰ Then let my wife grind unto another, And let others bow down upon her.

¹¹ For that were a heinous crime; Yea, it were an iniquity to be punished by the judges:

¹² For it is a fire that consumeth unto Destruction, And would root out all mine increase.

¹³ If I have despised the cause of my man-servant or of my maid-servant, When they contended with me;

¹⁴ What then shall I do when God riseth up? And when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?

¹⁵ Did not he that made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb?

¹⁶ If I have withheld the poor from `their' desire, Or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

¹⁷ Or have eaten my morsel alone, And the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;

¹⁸ (Nay, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, And her have I 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 loins have not blessed me, And if he hath not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

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 mine arm be broken from the bone.

²³ For calamity from God is a terror to me, And by reason of his majesty I can do nothing.

²⁴ If I have made gold my hope, And have said to the fine gold, `Thou art' my confidence;

²⁵ If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, And because my hand had gotten much;

²⁶ If I have beheld the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness,

²⁷ And my heart hath been secretly enticed, And my mouth hath kissed my hand:

²⁸ This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judges; For I should have denied the God that is above.

²⁹ If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, Or lifted up myself when evil found him;

³⁰ (Yea, I have not suffered by mouth to sin By asking his life with a curse);

³¹ If the men of my tent have not said, Who can find one that hath not been filled with his meat?

³² (The sojourner hath not lodged in the street; But I have opened my doors to the traveller);

³³ If like Adam I have covered my transgressions, By hiding mine iniquity in my bosom,

³⁴ Because I feared the great multitude, And the contempt of families terrified me, So that I kept silence, and went not out of the door-

³⁵ Oh that I had one to hear me! (Lo, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me); And `that I had' the indictment which mine adversary hath written!

³⁶ Surely I would carry it upon my shoulder; I would bind it unto me as a crown:

³⁷ I would declare unto him the number of my steps; As a prince would I go near unto him.

³⁸ If my land crieth out against me, And the furrows thereof weep together;

³⁹ If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, Or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:

⁴⁰ Let thistles grow instead of wheat, And cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.

²² And Solomon stood before the altar of Jehovah in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven;

¹⁴ Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples that are round about you;

²⁹ And Moses said unto him, As soon as I am gone out of the city, I will spread abroad my hands unto Jehovah; the thunders shall cease, neither shall there be any more hail; that thou mayest know that the earth is Jehovah's.