1 I made a covenant with mine eyes; and how should I fix my regard upon a maid? DBY — Job 31:1
2 For what would have been [my] portion of God from above, and what the heritage of the Almighty from on high? DBY — Job 31:2
3 Is not calamity for the unrighteous? and misfortune for the workers of iniquity? DBY — Job 31:3
4 Doth not he see my ways, and number all my steps? DBY — Job 31:4
5 If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot hath hasted to deceit, DBY — Job 31:5
6 (Let me be weighed in an even balance, and God will take knowledge of my blamelessness;) DBY — Job 31:6
7 If my step have turned out of the way, and my heart followed mine eyes, and if any blot cleaveth to my hands; DBY — Job 31:7
8 Let me sow, and another eat; and let mine offspring be rooted out. DBY — Job 31:8
9 If my heart have been enticed unto a woman, so that I laid wait at my neighbour’s door, DBY — Job 31:9
10 Let my wife grind for another, and let others bow down upon her. DBY — Job 31:10
11 For this is an infamy; yea, it is an iniquity [to be judged by] the judges: DBY — Job 31:11
12 For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase. DBY — Job 31:12
13 If I have despised the cause of my bondman or of my bondmaid, when they contended with me, DBY — Job 31:13
14 What then should I do when God riseth up? and if he visited, what should I answer him? DBY — Job 31:14
15 Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not One fashion us in the womb? DBY — Job 31:15
16 If I have withheld the poor from [their] desire, or caused the eyes of the widow to fail; DBY — Job 31:16
17 Or have eaten my morsel alone, so that the fatherless ate not thereof, DBY — Job 31:17
18 (For from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, and I have guided the [widow] from my mother’s womb;) DBY — Job 31:18
19 If I have seen any perishing for want of clothing, or any needy without covering; DBY — Job 31:19
20 If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my lambs; DBY — Job 31:20
21 If I have lifted up my hand against an orphan, because I saw my help in the gate: DBY — Job 31:21
22 [Then] let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone! DBY — Job 31:22
23 For calamity from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his excellency I was powerless. DBY — Job 31:23
24 If I have made gold my hope, or said to the fine gold, My confidence! DBY — Job 31:24
25 If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much; DBY — Job 31:25
26 If I beheld the sun when it shone, or the moon walking in brightness, DBY — Job 31:26
27 And my heart have been secretly enticed, so that my mouth kissed my hand: DBY — Job 31:27
28 This also would be an iniquity for the judge, for I should have denied the God who is above. DBY — Job 31:28
29 If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, and exulted when evil befell him; DBY — Job 31:29
30 (Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse;) DBY — Job 31:30
31 If the men of my tent said not, Who shall find one that hath not been satisfied with his meat? DBY — Job 31:31
32 The stranger did not lodge without; I opened my doors to the pathway. DBY — Job 31:32
33 If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom, DBY — Job 31:33
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, DBY — Job 31:34
35 Oh that I had one to hear me! Behold my signature: let the Almighty answer me! And let mine opponent write an accusation! DBY — Job 31:35
36 Would I not take it upon my shoulder? I would bind it on to me [as] a crown; DBY — Job 31:36
37 I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I come near to him. DBY — Job 31:37
38 If my land cry out against me, and its furrows weep together; DBY — Job 31:38
39 If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, and have tormented to death the souls of its owners: DBY — Job 31:39
40 Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and tares instead of barley. The words of Job are ended. DBY — Job 31:40