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32     Have I ever left the foreigner to sleep outside?
        No. My door was always open to the traveler.
33     If I have covered my sin as people do
        or attempted to hide my wrongdoing in the recesses of my heart
34     (Because of my fear of the opinions of the crowd
        or my fright at the disdain of my family)
    And kept silent hiding indoors away from all possible discovery of flaws;

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32 but no stranger had to spend the night in the street,
    for my door was always open to the traveler(A)
33 if I have concealed(B) my sin as people do,[a]
    by hiding(C) my guilt in my heart
34 because I so feared the crowd(D)
    and so dreaded the contempt of the clans
    that I kept silent(E) and would not go outside—

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Footnotes

  1. Job 31:33 Or as Adam did