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Job 31:26

Verse 26 of 40. The 31st of 42 chapters in Job, in Poetry and Wisdom.

22then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from the bone.

23For calamity from God is a terror to me. Because of his majesty, I can do nothing.

24“If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, ‘You are my confidence;’

25If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;

26if I have seen the sun when it shined, or the moon moving in splendor,

27and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth;

28this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges, for I would have denied the God who is above.

29“If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him

30(I have certainly not allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse);

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World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.