1“I solemnly promised myself
2If I did not do what I promised,
3Previously I thought that surely [RHQ] it was unrighteous people who would experience calamities,
4God certainly sees [RHQ] everything that I do,
5“I solemnly declare that I have never acted wickedly
6I request only that God judge me fairly [MET],
7If it were true that I have stopped living righteously,
8then I hope/wish that when I plant seeds, someone else will harvest the crops and eat them
9“If it were true that I [SYN] have been attracted by some other man’s wife,
10I hope/desire that my wife will become the servant/slave of another man
11For me to do that would be a terrible sin,
12My committing adultery would produce in me a fire like [MET] the fire that burns people in hell,
13“And, if it were true that I have ever refused to listen to one of my male or female servants
14God would arise and declare that he would punish me;
15God, who created me, certainly also created my servants [RHQ];
16or that I had seen people die from cold because they had no clothes,
17and they were not able to become warm from clothes made from the wool of my sheep
18or if it were true that I threatened to strike any orphan
19if those things were true about me, I hope/desire that my shoulder blade would be torn out
20I always feared that God would cause me to experience a great disaster if I did any of those evil things,
21“If it were true that I trusted in my gold/money [DOU],
22or that I rejoiced because I had acquired many things
23or that I looked at the sun when it was shining
24and I [SYN] had been tempted to worship them
25those things also would be sins for which the judges would say that I must be punished,
26Some people try to hide their sins,
27and I never remained silent and refused to go outside of my home
28“I wish/desire that there was someone who would hear what I am saying!
29If they did that, I would wear that scroll on my shoulder, or wear it on top of my head, in order that everyone could see it.
30I would tell God everything that I have done,
31If it were true that I have stolen land,
32or if it were true that I have eaten the crops that grew in someone else’s fields
33then I wish/desire that thorns would grow in my fields instead of wheat.