Job 31:37 bbe — I would make clear the number of my steps, I would put it before him like a prince! The words of Job are ended.

For fear of the great body of people, or for fear that families might make sport of me, so that I kept quiet, and did not go out of my door;

If only God would give ear to me, and the Ruler of all would give me an answer! or if what he has against me had been put in writing!

Truly I would take up the book in my hands; it would be to me as a crown;

If my land has made an outcry against me, or the ploughed earth has been in sorrow;

If I have taken its produce without payment, causing the death of its owners;

Then in place of grain let thorns come up, and in place of barley evil-smelling plants.