Understanding God's Heart For Us in Song
28 this 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);
31 if the men of my tent have not said, ‘Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?’
32 (the foreigner has not camped in the street, but I have opened my doors to the traveler);
33 if like Adam I have covered my transgressions, by hiding my iniquity in my heart,
34 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—
35 oh that I had one to hear me! Behold, here is my signature! Let the Almighty answer me! Let the accuser write my indictment!
36 Surely I would carry it on my shoulder, and I would bind it to me as a crown.
37 I would declare to him the number of my steps. I would go near to him like a prince.
38 If my land cries out against me, and its furrows weep together;
39 if I have eaten its fruits without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life,