23. For destruction from El was a pachad to me, and by reason of His majesty I could not endure.
24. If I have made zahav my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my security,
25. If I rejoice because my wealth was rav (great), and because mine yad had gotten much,
26. If I beheld the ohr when it shined, or the yarei'ach moving in splendor,
27. And my lev hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my yad [in heathen worship];
28. This also were an avon to be punished by the judge; for then I would have been unfaithful, denying El that is on high.
29. If I rejoice at the misfortune of him that hated me, or gloated when rah found him,
30. Neither have I allowed my mouth to sin by invoking a curse to his nefesh.
31. Have the men of my ohel not said, Where can we find one who has not been sated with his basar (meat)?
32. The stranger did not spend the night in the street, but I opened my delet to the ger.
33. If I concealed my peysha like Adam, by hiding mine avon in my heart,
34. Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of mishpekhot terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of doors?
35. Oh that one would hear me! See, my tav [signature], that Shaddai would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a sefer [of indictment];