Job 31

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(Job 31:1) I made a covenant with mine 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) Doth not he see my ways, And number all my steps?
(Job 31:5) If I have walked with falsehood, And 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 my heart walked after mine eyes, And if any spot hath cleaved 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 hath been enticed unto a woman, And I have laid wait at my neighbor's door;
(Job 31:10) Then let my wife grind unto another, And let others bow down upon her.
(Job 31:11) For that were a heinous crime; Yea, it were an iniquity to be punished by the judges:
(Job 31:12) For it is a fire that consumeth unto Destruction, And would root out all mine increase.
(Job 31:13) If I have despised the cause of my man-servant or of my maid-servant, 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 @9their@7 desire, Or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
(Job 31:17) Or have eaten my morsel alone, And the fatherless hath not eaten thereof
(Job 31:18) (Nay, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, And her have I guided from my mother's womb);
(Job 31:19) If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, Or that the needy had no covering;
(Job 31:20) If his loins have not blessed me, And if he hath 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 mine arm be broken from the bone.
(Job 31:23) For calamity from God is a terror to me, And by reason of his majesty I can do nothing.
(Job 31:24) @@If I have made gold my hope, And have said to the fine gold, @9Thou art@7 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 shined, Or the moon walking in brightness,
(Job 31:27) And my heart hath been secretly enticed, And my mouth hath kissed my hand:
(Job 31:28) This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judges; For I should have denied the God that is above.
(Job 31:29) If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, Or lifted up myself when evil found him;
(Job 31:30) (Yea, I have not suffered by 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 that hath not been filled with his meat?
(Job 31:32) (The sojourner hath not lodged in the street; But I have opened my doors to the traveller);
(Job 31:33) If like Adam I have covered my transgressions, By hiding mine 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 went not out of the door-
(Job 31:35) @@Oh that I had one to hear me! (Lo, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me); And @9that I had@7 the indictment which mine adversary hath written!
(Job 31:36) Surely I would carry it upon my shoulder; I would bind it unto me as a crown:
(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 crieth out against me, And the furrows thereof weep together;
(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.