Holy Bible
(King James Version)
Job:
Chapter 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 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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