Job 31

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