24If I have made gold my hope,

And have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;

25If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great,

And because my hand had gotten much;

26If I have beheld the sun when it shined,

Or the moon walking in brightness,

27And my heart hath been secretly enticed,

And my mouth hath kissed my hand:

28This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judges;

For I should have denied the God that is above.

29If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me,

Or lifted up myself when evil found him

30(Yea, I have not suffered my mouth to sin

By asking his life with a curse);

31If the men of my tent have not said,

Who can find one that hath not been filled with his meat?

32(The sojourner hath not lodged in the street;

But I have opened my doors to the traveller);

33If like Adam I have covered my transgressions,

By hiding mine iniquity in my bosom,

34Because I feared the great multitude,

And the contempt of families terrified me,

So that I kept silence, and went not out of the door—