I had someone to hear me! I sign now my defense—let the Almighty answer me

Job 31:13-40

If I have denied justice to any of my servants,  whether male or female,  when they had a grievance against me, what will I do when God confronts me? What will I answer when called to account? Did not he who made me in the womb make them?  Did not the same one form us both within our mothers?

“If I have denied the desires of the poor or let the eyes of the widow grow weary, if I have kept my bread to myself, not sharing it with the fatherless— but from my youth I reared them as a father would, and from my birth I guided the widow—

If I have put my trust in gold or said to pure gold, ‘You are my security,’ if I have rejoiced over my great wealth, the fortune my hands had gained, if I have regarded the sun in its radiance or the moon moving in splendor, so that my heart was secretly enticed and my hand offered them a kiss of homage, then these also would be sins to be judged, for I would have been unfaithful to God on high.

If I have rejoiced at my enemy’s misfortune or gloated over the trouble that came to him—
30 I have not allowed my mouth to sin by invoking a curse against their life—

Oh, that I had someone to hear me! I sign now my defense—let the Almighty answer me; let my accuser put his indictment in writing.

if my land cries out against me and all its furrows are wet with tears, if I have devoured its yield without payment or broken the spirit of its tenants, then let briers come up instead of wheat and stinkweed instead of barley.”

Why?

Job described what he had done and what he obeyed the word of the Lord to love others. Do his best to serve others and supply needed persons.

Job is not only pure in his behavior but also in his heart, trust in the Lord instead of gold or great wealth.

Job hoped the Lord answer him, and let his accuser put his indictment in writing. For Job cannot remember what he has to do but did not do it.

How?

May the Lord Almighty keep my heart and my way walking on the way of the Lord!