Job 31:29-40 ▼

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

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

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

32 The stranger did not lodge in the street; but I opened my doors to the traveller;

33 If like Adam I 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 cry 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.