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XXXI] :Or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;
 * If I rejoiced because my wealth was great,
 * And because mine hand had gotten much:
 * If I beheld the sun when it shined,
 * Or the moon walking in brightness;
 * And my heart hath been secretly enticed,
 * Or my mouth hath kissed my hand:
 * This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge:
 * For I should have denied the God that is above.
 * If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me.
 * Or lifted up myself when evil found him:
 * Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin
 * By wishing a curse to his soul.
 * If the men of my tabernacle said not,
 * Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.
 * The stranger did not lodge in the street:
 * But I opened my doors to the traveller.
 * If I covered my transgressions as Adam,
 * By hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:
 * Did I fear a great multitude,
 * Or did the contempt of families terrify me,
 * That I kept silence, and went not out of the door?
 * Oh that one would hear me!
 * Behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me.
 * And that mine adversary had written a book.