1 I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid? KJV — Job 31:1
2 For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high? KJV — Job 31:2
3 Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity? KJV — Job 31:3
4 Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps? KJV — Job 31:4
5 If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit; KJV — Job 31:5
6 Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity. KJV — Job 31:6
7 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; KJV — Job 31:7
8 Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out. KJV — Job 31:8
9 If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour’s door; KJV — Job 31:9
10 Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her. KJV — Job 31:10
11 For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges. KJV — Job 31:11
12 For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase. KJV — Job 31:12
13 If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me; KJV — Job 31:13
14 What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him? KJV — Job 31:14
15 Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb? KJV — Job 31:15
16 If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail; KJV — Job 31:16
17 Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof; KJV — Job 31:17
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;) KJV — Job 31:18
19 If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering; KJV — Job 31:19
20 If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep; KJV — Job 31:20
21 If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate: KJV — Job 31:21
22 Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone. KJV — Job 31:22
23 For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure. KJV — Job 31:23
24 If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence; KJV — Job 31:24
25 If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much; KJV — Job 31:25
26 If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness; KJV — Job 31:26
27 And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand: KJV — Job 31:27
28 This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above. KJV — Job 31:28
29 If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him: KJV — Job 31:29
30 Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul. KJV — Job 31:30
31 If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied. KJV — Job 31:31
32 The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller. KJV — Job 31:32
33 If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom: KJV — Job 31:33
34 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? KJV — Job 31:34
35 Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book. KJV — Job 31:35
36 Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me. KJV — Job 31:36
37 I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him. KJV — Job 31:37
38 If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain; KJV — Job 31:38
39 If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life: KJV — Job 31:39
40 Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended. KJV — Job 31:40