chapter_Job_31
Job 31:1: A covenant I made for mine eyes, And what &#8212; do I attend to a virgin? Job 31:2: And what is the portion of God from above? And the inheritance of the Mighty from the heights? Job 31:3: Is not calamity to the perverse? And strangeness to workers of iniquity? Job 31:4: Doth not He see my ways, And all my steps number? Job 31:5: If I have walked with vanity, And my foot doth hasten to deceit, Job 31:6: He doth weigh me in righteous balances, And God doth know my integrity. Job 31:7: If my step doth turn aside from the way, And after mine eyes hath my heart gone, And to my hands cleaved hath blemish, Job 31:8: Let me sow &#8212; and another eat, And my products let be rooted out. Job 31:9: If my heart hath been enticed by woman, And by the opening of my neighbour I laid wait, Job 31:10: Grind to another let my wife, And over her let others bend. Job 31:11: For it is a wicked thing, and a judicial iniquity; Job 31:12: For a fire it is, to destruction it consumeth, And among all mine increase doth take root, Job 31:13: If I despise the cause of my man-servant, And of my handmaid, In their contending with me, Job 31:14: Then what do I do when God ariseth? And when He doth inspect, What do I answer Him? Job 31:15: Did not He that made me in the womb make him? Yea, prepare us in the womb doth One. Job 31:16: If I withhold from pleasure the poor, And the eyes of the widow do consume, Job 31:17: And I do eat my morsel by myself, And the orphan hath not eat of it, Job 31:18: (But from my youth He grew up with me as with a father, And from the belly of my mother I am led.) Job 31:19: If I see any perishing without clothing, And there is no covering to the needy, Job 31:20: If his loins have not blessed me, And from the fleece of my sheep He doth not warm himself, Job 31:21: If I have waved at the fatherless my hand, When I see in him the gate of my court, Job 31:22: My shoulder from its blade let fall, And mine arm from the bone be broken. Job 31:23: For a dread unto me is calamity from God, And because of His excellency I am not able. Job 31:24: If I have made gold my confidence, And to the pure gold have said, 'My trust,' Job 31:25: If I rejoice because great is my wealth, And because abundance hath my hand found, Job 31:26: If I see the light when it shineth, And the precious moon walking, Job 31:27: And my heart is enticed in secret, And my hand doth kiss my mouth, Job 31:28: It also is a judicial iniquity, For I had lied to God above. Job 31:29: If I rejoice at the ruin of my hater, And stirred up myself when evil found him, Job 31:30: Yea, I have not suffered my mouth to sin, To ask with an oath his life. Job 31:31: If not &#8212; say ye, O men of my tent, 'O that we had of his flesh, we are not satisfied.' Job 31:32: In the street doth not lodge a stranger, My doors to the traveller I open. Job 31:33: If I have covered as Adam my transgressions, To hide in my bosom mine iniquity, Job 31:34: Because I fear a great multitude, And the contempt of families doth affright me, Then I am silent, I go not out of the opening. Job 31:35: Who giveth to me a hearing? lo, my mark. The Mighty One doth answer me, And a bill hath mine adversary written. Job 31:36: If not &#8212; on my shoulder I take it up, I bind it a crown on myself. Job 31:37: The number of my steps I tell Him, As a leader I approach Him. Job 31:38: If against me my land doth cry out, And together its furrows weep, Job 31:39: If its strength I consumed without money, And the life of its possessors, I have caused to breathe out, Job 31:40: Instead of wheat let a thorn go forth, And instead of barley a useless weed! The words of Job are finished.
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