job 31:1

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

job 31:2

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

job 31:3

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

job 31:4

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

job 31:5

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

job 31:6

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

job 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;

job 31:8

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

job 31:9

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

job 31:10

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

job 31:11

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

job 31:12

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

job 31:13

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

job 31:14

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

job 31:15

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

job 31:16

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

job 31:17

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

job 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;)

job 31:19

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

job 31:20

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

job 31:21

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

job 31:22

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

job 31:23

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

job 31:24

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

job 31:25

  If I rejoice because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much;

job 31:26

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

job 31:27

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

job 31:28

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

job 31:29

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

job 31:30

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

job 31:31

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

job 31:32

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

job 31:33

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

job 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?

job 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.

job 31:36

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

job 31:37

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

job 31:38

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

job 31:39

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

job 31:40

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