Holy Scripture
Job 31:34
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“"Because I did not turn away," he says, "from the great multitude of my people," that is, away from my subjects, from those who were aware, who knew even the character itself of my fault. This is real wisdom. "First of all confess spontaneously your sins in order to be justified." So I took nobody as a witness of my g…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
34(For I did not stand in awe of a great multitude, so as not to declare boldly before them): And if too I permitted a poor man to go out of my door with an empty bosom
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32For the stranger did not lodge without, And my door was opened to everyone that came):
33Or if too having sinned unintentionally, I hid my sin
— Job 31:34 —
35(Oh that I had a hearer), And if I had not feared the hand of the Lord; And as to the written charge which I had against anyone,
36I would place it as a chaplet on my shoulders, and read it.