Book 18 Job Chapter 031
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| 031:001 | I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?
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| 031:002 | For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?
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| 031:003 | Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?
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| 031:004 | Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?
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| 031:005 | If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;
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| 031:006 | Let me be weighed in an even balance that God may know mine integrity.
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| 031:007 | 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;
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| 031:008 | Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.
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| 031:009 | If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour's door;
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| 031:010 | Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.
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| 031:011 | For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.
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| 031:012 | For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.
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| 031:013 | If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;
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| 031:014 | What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?
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| 031:015 | Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
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| 031:016 | If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
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| 031:017 | Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;
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| 031:018 | (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)
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| 031:019 | If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;
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| 031:020 | If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
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| 031:021 | If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:
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| 031:022 | Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.
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| 031:023 | For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.
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| 031:024 | If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;
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| 031:025 | If I rejoice because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much;
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| 031:026 | If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;
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| 031:027 | And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand:
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| 031:028 | This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.
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| 031:029 | If I rejoice at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:
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| 031:030 | Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.
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| 031:031 | If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.
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| 031:032 | The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller.
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| 031:033 | If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:
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| 031:034 | 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?
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| 031:035 | Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.
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| 031:036 | Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.
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| 031:037 | I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.
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| 031:038 | If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;
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| 031:039 | If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:
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| 031:040 | Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended. |