Job


31:1
 I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?


31:2
 For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?


31:3
 Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?


31:4
 Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?


31:5
 If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;


31:6
 Let me be weighed in an even balance that God may know mine integrity.


31:7
 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;


31:8
 Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.


31:9
 If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour’s door;


31:10
 Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.


31:11
 For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.


31:12
 For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.


31:13
 If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;


31:14
 What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?


31:15
 Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?


31:16
 If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;


31:17
 Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;


31:18
 (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother’s womb;)


31:19
 If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;


31:20
 If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;


31:21
 If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:


31:22
 Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.


31:23
 For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.


31:24
 If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;


31:25
 If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much;


31:26
 If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;


31:27
 And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand:


31:28
 This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.


31:29
 If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:


31:30
 Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.


31:31
 If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.


31:32
 The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller.


31:33
 If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:


31:34
 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?


31:35
 Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.


31:36
 Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.


31:37
 I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.


31:38
 If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;


31:39
 If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:


31:40
 Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.