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if I have raised my hand against the fatherless, knowing that I had influence in court,
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then let my arm fall from the shoulder, let it be broken off at the joint.
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For I dreaded destruction from God, and for fear of his splendor I could not do such things.
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“If I have put my trust in gold or said to pure gold, ‘You are my security,’
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if I have rejoiced over my great wealth, the fortune my hands had gained,
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if I have regarded the sun in its radiance or the moon moving in splendor,
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so that my heart was secretly enticed and my hand offered them a kiss of homage,
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then these also would be sins to be judged, for I would have been unfaithful to God on high.
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“If I have rejoiced at my enemy’s misfortune or gloated over the trouble that came to him—
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I have not allowed my mouth to sin by invoking a curse against their life—
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if those of my household have never said, ‘Who has not been filled with Job’s meat?’—