²⁰ If we have forgotten the name of our God, And spread our hands to a strange God,

⁹ There is not in thee a strange god, And thou bowest not thyself to a strange god.

³¹ Come do fat ones out of Egypt, Cush causeth her hands to run to God.

¹³ If thou -- thou hast prepared thy heart, And hast spread out unto Him thy hands,

¹¹ And they forget His doings, And His wonders that He shewed them.

¹⁷ All this met us, and we did not forget Thee, Nor have we dealt falsely in Thy covenant.

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

⁴ If I have done my well-wisher evil, And draw mine adversary without cause,

⁵ An enemy pursueth my soul, and overtaketh, And treadeth down to the earth my life, And my honour placeth in the dust. Selah.

⁵ If I have walked with vanity, And my foot doth hasten to deceit,

⁶ He doth weigh me in righteous balances, And God doth know my integrity.

⁷ If my step doth turn aside from the way, And after mine eyes hath my heart gone, And to my hands cleaved hath blemish,

⁸ Let me sow -- and another eat, And my products let be rooted out.

⁹ If my heart hath been enticed by woman, And by the opening of my neighbour I laid wait,

¹⁰ Grind to another let my wife, And over her let others bend.

¹¹ For it `is' a wicked thing, and a judicial iniquity;

¹² For a fire it `is', to destruction it consumeth, And among all mine increase doth take root,

¹³ If I despise the cause of my man-servant, And of my handmaid, In their contending with me,

¹⁴ Then what do I do when God ariseth? And when He doth inspect, What do I answer Him?

¹⁵ Did not He that made me in the womb make him? Yea, prepare us in the womb doth One.

¹⁶ If I withhold from pleasure the poor, And the eyes of the widow do consume,

¹⁷ And I do eat my morsel by myself, And the orphan hath not eat of it,

¹⁸ (But from my youth He grew up with me as `with' a father, And from the belly of my mother I am led.)

¹⁹ If I see `any' perishing without clothing, And there is no covering to the needy,

²⁰ If his loins have not blessed me, And from the fleece of my sheep He doth not warm himself,

²¹ If I have waved at the fatherless my hand, When I see in `him' the gate of my court,

²² My shoulder from its blade let fall, And mine arm from the bone be broken.

²³ For a dread unto me `is' calamity `from' God, And because of His excellency I am not able.

²⁴ If I have made gold my confidence, And to the pure gold have said, `My trust,'

²⁵ If I rejoice because great `is' my wealth, And because abundance hath my hand found,

²⁶ If I see the light when it shineth, And the precious moon walking,

²⁷ And my heart is enticed in secret, And my hand doth kiss my mouth,

²⁸ It also `is' a judicial iniquity, For I had lied to God above.

²⁹ If I rejoice at the ruin of my hater, And stirred up myself when evil found him,

³⁰ Yea, I have not suffered my mouth to sin, To ask with an oath his life.

³¹ If not -- say ye, O men of my tent, `O that we had of his flesh, we are not satisfied.'

³² In the street doth not lodge a stranger, My doors to the traveller I open.

³³ If I have covered as Adam my transgressions, To hide in my bosom mine iniquity,

³⁴ Because I fear a great multitude, And the contempt of families doth affright me, Then I am silent, I go not out of the opening.

³⁵ Who giveth to me a hearing? lo, my mark. The Mighty One doth answer me, And a bill hath mine adversary written.

³⁶ If not -- on my shoulder I take it up, I bind it a crown on myself.

³⁷ The number of my steps I tell Him, As a leader I approach Him.

³⁸ If against me my land doth cry out, And together its furrows weep,

³⁹ If its strength I consumed without money, And the life of its possessors, I have caused to breathe out,

⁴⁰ Instead of wheat let a thorn go forth, And instead of barley a useless weed! The words of Job are finished.

²² And Solomon standeth before the altar of Jehovah, over-against all the assembly of Israel, and spreadeth his hands towards the heavens,

¹⁴ ye do not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples who `are' round about you;

²⁹ And Moses saith unto him, `At my going out of the city, I spread my palms unto Jehovah -- the voices cease, and the hail is not any more, so that thou knowest that the earth `is' Jehovah's;