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| Job 31: (ASV) |
| 1) I made a covenant with mine eyes; How then should I look upon a virgin? |
| 2) For what is the portion from God above, And the heritage from the Almighty on high? |
| 3) Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, And disaster to the workers of iniquity? |
| 4) Doth not he see my ways, And number all my steps? |
| 5) If I have walked with falsehood, And my foot hath hasted to deceit |
| 6) (Let me be weighed in an even balance, That God may know mine integrity); |
| 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: |
| 8) Then let me sow, and let another eat; Yea, let the produce of my field be rooted out. |
| 9) If my heart hath been enticed unto a woman, And I have laid wait at my neighbor's door; |
| 10) Then let my wife grind unto another, And let others bow down upon her. |
| 11) For that were a heinous crime; Yea, it were an iniquity to be punished by the judges: |
| 12) For it is a fire that consumeth unto Destruction, And would root out all mine increase. |
| 13) If I have despised the cause of my man-servant or of my maid-servant, When they contended with me; |
| 14) What then shall I do when God riseth up? And when he visiteth, what shall I answer him? |
| 15) Did not he that made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb? |
| 16) If I have withheld the poor from their desire, Or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail, |
| 17) Or have eaten my morsel alone, And the fatherless hath not eaten thereof |
| 18) (Nay, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, And her have I guided from my mother's womb); |
| 19) If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, Or that the needy had no covering; |
| 20) If his loins have not blessed me, And if he hath not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep; |
| 21) If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, Because I saw my help in the gate: |
| 22) Then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade, And mine arm be broken from the bone. |
| 23) For calamity from God is a terror to me, And by reason of his majesty I can do nothing. |
| 24) If I have made gold my hope, And have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence; |
| 25) If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, And because my hand had gotten much; |
| 26) If I have beheld the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness, |
| 27) And my heart hath been secretly enticed, And my mouth hath kissed my hand: |
| 28) This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judges; For I should have denied the God that is above. |
| 29) If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, Or lifted up myself when evil found him |
| 30) (Yea, I have not suffered my mouth to sin By asking his life with a curse); |
| 31) If the men of my tent have not said, Who can find one that hath not been filled with his meat? |
| 32) (The sojourner hath not lodged in the street; But I have opened my doors to the traveller); |
| 33) If like Adam I have covered my transgressions, By hiding mine iniquity in my bosom, |
| 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-- |
| 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! |
| 36) Surely I would carry it upon my shoulder; I would bind it unto me as a crown: |
| 37) I would declare unto him the number of my steps; As a prince would I go near unto him. |
| 38) If my land crieth out against me, And the furrows thereof weep together; |
| 39) If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, Or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life: |
| 40) Let thistles grow instead of wheat, And cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended. |