Job 31:24-34

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

²⁴ If I have made gold my trust and hope or have said to fine gold, You are my confidence,

²⁵ If I rejoiced because my wealth was great and because my [powerful] hand [alone] had gotten much,

²⁶ If I beheld [as an object of worship] the sunlight when it shone or the moon walking in its brightness,

²⁷ And my heart has been secretly enticed by them or my mouth has kissed my hand [in homage to them],

²⁸ This also would have been [a heinous and principal] iniquity to demand the judges’ action and punishment, for I would have denied and been false to the God Who is above.^(A)

²⁹ If I rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me or lifted myself up [in malicious triumph] when evil overtook him—

³⁰ No, I have let my mouth sin neither by cursing my enemy nor by praying that he might die—

³¹ [Just ask] if the men of my tent will not say, Who can find one in need who has not been satisfied with food he gave them?—

³² The temporary resident has not lodged in the street, but I have opened my door to the wayfaring man—

³³ If like Adam or like [other] men I have concealed my transgressions, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom

³⁴ Because I feared the great multitude and the contempt of families terrified me so that I kept silence and did not go out of the door—