if the men of my tent have not said,
‘Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?’
if the men of my tent have not said,
‘Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?’
Job 31:28–34
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);
if like Adam I have covered my transgressions,
by hiding my iniquity in my heart,
because I feared the great multitude,
and the contempt of families terrified me,
so that I kept silence, and didn’t go out of the door—
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