Job 31
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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 neighbour’s 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 mother’s
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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