hall examine, what shall I answer him?

31:15. Did not he that made me in the womb make him also: and did not
one and the same form me in the womb?

31:16. If I have denied to the poor what they desired, and have made the
eyes of the widow wait:

31:17. If I have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless hath not
eaten thereof:

31:18. (For from my infancy mercy grew up with me: and it came out with
me from my mother's womb:)

31:19. If I have despised him that was perishing for want of clothing,
and the poor man that had no covering:

31:20. If his sides have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with
the fleece of my sheep:

31:21. If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, even when I
saw myself superior in the gate:

31:22. Let my shoulder fall from its joint, and let my arm with its
bones be broken.

31:23. For I have always feared God as waves swelling over me, and his
weight I was unable to bear.

31:24. If I have thought gold my strength, and have said to fine gold:
My confidence:

31:25. If I have rejoiced over my great riches, and because my hand had
gotten much.

31:26. If I beheld the sun when it shined and the moon going in
brightness:

If I beheld the sun, etc... If I behold the sun and moon with
admiration, knowing them to be created and governed by the power of God,
I call on my adversaries to produce any thing against me, whereby I
could be charged with worshipping the sun or moon.

31:27. And my heart in secret hath rejoiced, and I have kissed my hand
with, my mouth:

31:28. Which is a very great iniquity, and a denial against the most
high God.

31:29. If I have been glad at the downfall of him that hated me, and
have rejoiced that evil had found him.

31:30. For I have not given my mouth to sin, by wishing a curse to his
soul.

31:31. If the men of my tabernacle have not said: Who will give us of
his flesh that we may be filled?

31:32. The stranger did not stay without, my door was open to the
traveller.

31:33. If as a man I have hid my sin, and have concealed my iniquity in
my bosom.

31:34. If I have been afraid at a very great multitude, and the contempt
of kinsmen hath terrified me: and have not rather held my peace, and not
gone out of the door.

31:35. Who would grant me a hearing, that the Almighty may hear my
desire: and that he himself that judgeth would write a book,

31:36. That I may carry it on my shoulder, and put it about me as a
crown?