Job 31

1 "I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?NHEB — Job 31:1

2 For what is the portion from God above, and the heritage from Shaddai on high?NHEB — Job 31:2

3 Is it not calamity for the unrighteous, and disaster for evildoers?NHEB — Job 31:3

4 Doesn't he see my ways, and number all my steps?NHEB — Job 31:4

5 "If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot has hurried to deceitNHEB — Job 31:5

6 (let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity);NHEB — Job 31:6

7 if my step has turned out of the way, if my heart walked after my eyes, if any defilement has stuck to my hands,NHEB — Job 31:7

8 then let me sow, and let another eat. Yes, let the produce of my field be rooted out.NHEB — Job 31:8

9 "If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbor's door,NHEB — Job 31:9

10 then let my wife grind for another, and let others sleep with her.NHEB — Job 31:10

11 For that would be a heinous crime. Yes, it would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges:NHEB — Job 31:11

12 For it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase.NHEB — Job 31:12

13 "If I have despised the cause of my male servant or of my female servant, when they contended with me;NHEB — Job 31:13

14 What then shall I do when God rises up? When he visits, what shall I answer him?NHEB — Job 31:14

15 Did not he who made me in the womb make him? Did not the same one fashion us in the womb?NHEB — Job 31:15

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

17 or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of itNHEB — Job 31:17

18 (no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, her have I guided from my mother's womb);NHEB — Job 31:18

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

20 if his heart hasn't blessed me, if he hasn't been warmed with my sheep's fleece;NHEB — Job 31:20

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

22 then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from the bone.NHEB — Job 31:22

23 For calamity from God is a terror to me. Because his majesty, I can do nothing.NHEB — Job 31:23

24 "If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, 'You are my confidence;'NHEB — Job 31:24

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

26 if I have seen the sun when it shined, or the moon moving in splendor,NHEB — Job 31:26

27 and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth,NHEB — Job 31:27

28 this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges; for I should have denied the God who is above.NHEB — Job 31:28

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

30 (yes, I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse);NHEB — Job 31:30

31 if the men of my tent have not said, 'Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?'NHEB — Job 31:31

32 (the foreigner has not lodged in the street, but I have opened my doors to the traveler);NHEB — Job 31:32

33 if like Adam I have covered my transgressions, by hiding my iniquity in my heart,NHEB — Job 31:33

34 because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and did not go out of the door—NHEB — Job 31:34

35 oh that I had one to hear me. (look, here is my signature, let Shaddai answer me); let the accuser write my indictment.NHEB — Job 31:35

36 Surely I would carry it on my shoulder; and I would bind it to me as a crown.NHEB — Job 31:36

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

38 If my land cries out against me, and its furrows weep together;NHEB — Job 31:38

39 if I have eaten its fruits without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life,NHEB — Job 31:39

40 let briars grow instead of wheat, and stinkweed instead of barley." The words of Job are ended.NHEB — Job 31:40