Job 31
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| v | JPS1917 |
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| 1 | I made a covenant with mine eyes; How then should I look upon a maid? |
| 2 | For what would be the portion of God from above, And the heritage of the Almighty from 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 count all my steps? |
| 5 | If I have walked with vanity, And my foot hath hasted to deceit— |
| 6 | Let me be weighed in a just 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 have been enticed unto a woman, And I have lain in wait at my neighbour’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 did despise 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 remembereth, 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 aught that the poor desired, Or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail; |
| 17 | Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, And the fatherless hath not eaten thereof— |
| 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. |
| 19 | If I have seen any wanderer in want of clothing, Or that the needy had no covering; |
| 20 | If his loins have not blessed me, And if he were not 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 was a terror to me, And by reason of His majesty I could do nothing. |
| 24 | If I have made gold my hope, And have said to the fine gold: ‘Thou art my confidence’; |
| 25 | If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, And because my hand had gotten much; |
| 26 | If I 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 lied to God that is above. |
| 29 | If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, Or exulted when evil found him— |
| 30 | Yea, I suffered not my mouth to sin By asking his life with a curse. |
| 31 | If the men of my tent said not: ‘Who can find one that hath not been satisfied with his meat?’ . |
| 32 | The stranger did not lodge in the street; My doors I opened to the roadside. |
| 33 | If after the manner of men I covered my transgressions, By hiding mine iniquity in my bosom— |
| 34 | Because I feared the great multitude, And the most contemptible among 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 cry out against me, And the furrows thereof weep together; |
| 39 | If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, Or have caused the tillers thereof to be disappointed— |
| 40 | Let thistles grow instead of wheat, And noisome weeds instead of barley. The words of Job are ended. |