5. “If I have walked in vanity,or if my foot has hurried after deceit,
6. let me be weighed in an even balancethat God may know my integrity.
7. If my step has turned out of the path,and my heart has gone after my eyes,and if any spot has clung to my hands,
8. then let me sow, but let another eat;yes, let my offspring be rooted out.
9. “If my heart has been deceived by a woman,or if I have laid wait at my neighbor’s door,
10. then let my wife grind for another,and let others bow down over her.
11. For this is a heinous crime;yes, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.
12. For it is a fire that consumes to destructionand would root out all my increase.
13. “If I have despised the cause of my male or female servantwhen they complained against me,
14. what then will I do when God rises up?And when He visits, what will I answer Him?
15. Did not He who made me in the womb make him?And did not the same One fashion us in the womb?
16. “If I have kept the poor from their desire,or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
17. or have eaten my morsel by myself,so that the fatherless could not eat of it
18. (but from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father,and I have guided the widow from my mother’s womb);
19. if I have seen anyone perish for lack of clothing,or any poor without covering;