Job 31

  1. I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid? 🔗
  2. For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high? 🔗
  3. Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity? 🔗
  4. Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps? 🔗
  5. If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit; 🔗
  6. Let me be weighed in an even balance that God may know mine integrity. 🔗
  7. 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; 🔗
  8. Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out. 🔗
  9. If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour2019s door; 🔗
  10. Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her. 🔗
  11. For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges. 🔗
  12. For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase. 🔗
  13. If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me; 🔗
  14. What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him? 🔗
  15. Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb? 🔗
  16. If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail; 🔗
  17. Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof; 🔗
  18. (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother2019s womb;) 🔗
  19. If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering; 🔗
  20. If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep; 🔗
  21. If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate: 🔗
  22. Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone. 🔗
  23. For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure. 🔗
  24. If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence; 🔗
  25. If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much; 🔗
  26. If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness; 🔗
  27. And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand: 🔗
  28. This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above. 🔗
  29. If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him: 🔗
  30. Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul. 🔗
  31. If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied. 🔗
  32. The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller. 🔗
  33. If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom: 🔗
  34. Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door? 🔗
  35. Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book. 🔗
  36. Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me. 🔗
  37. I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him. 🔗
  38. If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain; 🔗
  39. If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life: 🔗
  40. Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended. 🔗

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