Job 31

1 I MADE a covenant with mine eyes; how then should I look upon a maid?RV1885 — Job 31:1

2 For what is the portion of God from above, and the heritage of the Almighty from on high?RV1885 — Job 31:2

3 Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?RV1885 — Job 31:3

4 Doth not he see my ways, and number all my steps?RV1885 — Job 31:4

5 If I have walked with vanity, and my foot hath hasted to deceit;RV1885 — Job 31:5

6 (Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity;)RV1885 — Job 31:6

7 If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any spot hath cleaved to mine hands:RV1885 — Job 31:7

8 Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let the produce of my field be rooted out.RV1885 — Job 31:8

9 If mine heart have been enticed unto a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbour's door:RV1885 — Job 31:9

10 Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.RV1885 — Job 31:10

11 For that were an heinous crime; yea, it were an iniquity to be punished by the judges:RV1885 — Job 31:11

12 For it is a fire that consumeth unto Destruction, and would root out all mine increase.RV1885 — Job 31:12

13 If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me:RV1885 — Job 31:13

14 What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?RV1885 — Job 31:14

15 Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?RV1885 — Job 31:15

16 If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;RV1885 — Job 31:16

17 Or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;RV1885 — Job 31:17

18 (Nay, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, and I have been her guide from my mother's womb;)RV1885 — Job 31:18

19 If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;RV1885 — Job 31:19

20 If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;RV1885 — Job 31:20

21 If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate:RV1885 — Job 31:21

22 Then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.RV1885 — Job 31:22

23 For calamity from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his excellency I could do nothing.RV1885 — Job 31:23

24 If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;RV1885 — Job 31:24

25 If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much;RV1885 — Job 31:25

26 If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;RV1885 — Job 31:26

27 And my heart hath been secretly enticed, and my mouth hath kissed my hand:RV1885 — Job 31:27

28 This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judges: for I should have lied to God that is above.RV1885 — Job 31:28

29 If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him;RV1885 — Job 31:29

30 (Yea, I suffered not my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse;)RV1885 — Job 31:30

31 If the men of my tent said not, Who can find one that hath not been satisfied with his flesh?RV1885 — Job 31:31

32 The stranger did not lodge in the street; but I opened my doors to the traveller;RV1885 — Job 31:32

33 If like Adam I covered my transgressions, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom;RV1885 — 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--RV1885 — Job 31:34

35 Oh that I had one to hear me! (lo, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me;) and that I had the indictment which mine adversary hath written!RV1885 — Job 31:35

36 Surely I would carry it upon my shoulder; I would bind it unto me as a crown.RV1885 — Job 31:36

37 I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.RV1885 — Job 31:37

38 If my land cry out against me, and the furrows thereof weep together;RV1885 — Job 31:38

39 If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:RV1885 — Job 31:39

40 Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.RV1885 — Job 31:40