Job 37

1 If his sides have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep: 2 If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, even when I saw myself superior in the gate: 3 Let my shoulder fall from its joint, and let my arm with its bones be broken. 4 For I have always feared God as waves swelling over me, and his weight I was unable to bear. 5 If I have thought gold my strength, and have said to fine gold: My confidence: 6 If I have rejoiced over my great riches, and because my hand had gotten much. 7 If I beheld the sun when it shined and the moon going in brightness: 8 And my heart in secret hath rejoiced, and I have kissed my hand with my mouth: 9 Which is a very great iniquity, and a denial against the most high God. 10 If I have been glad at the downfall of him that hated me, and have rejoiced that evil had found him. 11 For I have not been given my mouth to sin, by wishing a curse to his soul. 12 If the men of my tabernacle have not said: Who will give us of his flesh that we may be filled? 13 The stranger did not stay without, my door was open to the traveller. 14 If as a man I have hid my sin, and have concealed my iniquity in my bosom. 15 If I have been afraid at a very great multitude, and the contempt of kinsmen hath terrified me: and have not rather held my peace, and not gone out of the door. 16 Who would grant me a hearing, that the Almighty may hear my desire: and that he himself that judgeth would write a book, 17 That I may carry it on my shoulder, and put it about me as a crown? 18 At every step of mine I would pronounce it, and offer it as to a prince. 19 If my land cry against me, and with it the furrows thereof mourn: 20 If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, and have afflicted the son of the tillers thereof: 21 Let thistles grow up to me instead of wheat, and thorns instead of barley. 23 So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he seemed just to himself. 24 And Eliu the son of Barachel the Buzite of the kindred of Ram, was angry and was moved to indignation: now he was angry against Job, because he said he was just before God.