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then may others eat what I have sown, and may my crops be uprooted.
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“If my heart has been enticed by a woman, or if I have lurked at my neighbor’s door,
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then may my wife grind another man’s grain, and may other men sleep with her.
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For that would have been wicked, a sin to be judged.
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It is a fire that burns to Destruction ; it would have uprooted my harvest.
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“If I have denied justice to any of my servants, whether male or female, when they had a grievance against me,
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what will I do when God confronts me? What will I answer when called to account?
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Did not he who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same one form us both within our mothers?
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“If I have denied the desires of the poor or let the eyes of the widow grow weary,
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if I have kept my bread to myself, not sharing it with the fatherless—
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but from my youth I reared them as a father would, and from my birth I guided the widow—