“If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me,
or lifted up myself when evil found him
“If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me,
or lifted up myself when evil found him
Job 31:26–32
if I have seen the sun when it shined,
or the moon moving in splendor,
and my heart has been secretly enticed,
and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth;
this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges,
for I would have denied the God who is above.
“If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me,
or lifted up myself when evil found him
(I have certainly not allowed my mouth to sin
by asking his life with a curse);
if the men of my tent have not said,
‘Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?’
(the foreigner has not camped in the street,
but I have opened my doors to the traveler);
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