If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.

If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;

If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him?

If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him;

If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.

If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.

If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.

If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:

If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.

If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.

If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;

If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;

If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour's door;

If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;

If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;

If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:

If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;

If I rejoice because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much;

If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;

If I rejoice at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:

If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.

If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom: