Job 31:1
I made a covenant with my eyes. How then should I look upon a virgin?
Job 31:2
For what is the portion from God above, and the heritage from the Almighty on high?
Job 31:3
Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?
Job 31:4
Does he not see my ways, and number all my steps?
Job 31:5
If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot has hastened to deceit
Job 31:6
(let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity);
Job 31:7
if my step has turned out of the way, and my heart walked after my eyes, and if any spot has clung to my hands,
Job 31:8
then let me sow, and let another eat, yea, let the produce of my field be rooted out.
Job 31:9
If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbor's door,
Job 31:10
then let my wife grind to another, and let others bow down upon her.
Job 31:11
For that is a heinous crime, yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.
Job 31:12
For it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase.
Job 31:13
If I have despised the case of my man-servant or of my maid-servant when they contended with me,
Job 31:14
what then shall I do when God rises up? And when he visits, what shall I answer him?
Job 31:15
Did not he who 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 alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it
Job 31:18
(no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, and her I have guided from my mother's womb);
Job 31:19
if I have seen any perish for lack of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;
Job 31:20
if his loins have not blessed me, and if he has not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
Job 31:21
if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,
Job 31:22
then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade, and my arm be broken from the bone.
Job 31:23
For calamity from God is a terror to me, and I can do nothing because of his majesty.
Job 31:24
If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, Thou are my confidence;
Job 31:25
if I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;
Job 31:26
if I have beheld the sun when it shone, or the moon walking in brightness,
Job 31:27
and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my mouth has kissed my hand
Job 31:28
(this also is an iniquity to be punished by the judges, for I would have denied the God that is above);
Job 31:29
if I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him
Job 31:30
(yea, I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse);
Job 31:31
if the men of my tent have not said, Who can find one who has not been filled with his food?
Job 31:32
(the sojourner has not lodged in the street, but I have opened my doors to the traveler);
Job 31:33
if like Adam I have covered my transgressions by hiding my iniquity in my bosom
Job 31:34
because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me so that I kept silence, and did not go out of the door-
Job 31:35
O that I had someone to hear me (Lo, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me), and that I had the indictment which my adversary has written!
Job 31:36
Surely I would carry it upon my shoulder. I would bind it to me as a crown.
Job 31:37
I would declare to him the number of my steps. I would go near to him as a prince.
Job 31:38
If my land cries out against me, and the furrows of it weep together;
Job 31:39
if I have eaten the fruits of it without money, or have caused the owners of it to lose their lives,
Job 31:40
let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.