Holy Scripture
Job 31:37
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“He promises that he will not contradict this book containing the divine witness. "For every one of my steps," with the progress of my works, "I will announce it," that is, I will acknowledge the truth of God's testimony and I will not refuse to submit the sentence according to divine witness. So he says, "and as to a…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
37And if not, tearing it up I would return it, Having taken nothing from the debtor.
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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.
— Job 31:37 —
38If at any time the land groaned against me, And if its furrows mourned together;
39And if I ate its strength alone without price, And if too I grieved the heart of the owner of the soil, by taking aught from him: