Holy Scripture
Job 31:5
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“Nobody can say, Job says, either that I was hankering after pleasures, luxuries and that kind of lustful life, or, on the other hand, that by becoming too hard and austere in my heart I finally fell into those vices that are contrary to that sort of life, that is, the vices of malice and deceit. No! I kept away from b…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
5But if I had gone with scorners, And if too my foot has hastened to deceit
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3Alas! destruction to the unrighteous, And rejection to them that do iniquity.
4Will he not see my way, And number all my steps?
— Job 31:5 —
6(For I am weighed in a just balance, And the Lord knows my innocence):
7If my foot has turned aside out of the way, Or if my heart has followed mine eye, And if too I have touched gifts with my hands;