Job 31
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- 1I made a covenant with my eyes; why then should I think upon a young woman?
- 2For what portion of God is there from above? And what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?
- 3Is not destruction for the wicked, and strange punishment for the workers of iniquity?
- 4Does he not see my ways and count all my steps?
- 5If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot has hurried to deceit—
- 6let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity.
- 7If my step has turned out of the way, and my heart walked after my eyes, and if any blot has clung to my hands—
- 8then let me sow and let another eat, and let my offspring be rooted out.
- 9If my heart has been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbor's door—
- 10then let my wife grind for another, and let others bow down upon her.
- 11For this is a heinous crime; yes, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.
- 12For it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my 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 rises up? And when he visits, what shall I answer him?
- 15Did not he who 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 has not eaten of it—
- 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 my arm fall from my shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from the bone.
- 23For destruction from God was a terror to me, and because of His highness, I could not endure.
- 24If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, 'You are my confidence,'
- 25if I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much,
- 26if I beheld the sun when it shone, or the moon walking in brightness,
- 27and my heart has been secretly enticed, or my mouth has kissed my hand—
- 28this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judge, for I would have denied the God who is above.
- 29If I rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him—
- 30neither have I allowed 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 traveler.
- 33If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding my 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 my adversary had written a book.
- 36Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.
- 37I would declare to him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near to him.
- 38If my land cry against me, or its furrows likewise complain,
- 39if I have eaten its fruits without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life—
- 40let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.