# Job 31 [[Job 30|←]] • [[Job 32|→]] --- ### 1 I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid? ### 2 For what portion of God from above? and inheritance of the Almighty from on high? ### 3 not destruction to the wicked? and a strange to the workers of iniquity? ### 4 Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps? ### 5 If I have walked with vanity, or if 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 mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands; ### 8 let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out. ### 9 If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or I have laid wait at my neighbour's door; ### 10 let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her. ### 11 For this an heinous crime; yea, it an iniquity the judges. ### 12 For it a fire consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase. ### 13 If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, 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 desire, 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 (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;) ### 19 If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering; ### 20 If his loins have not blessed me, and he were warmed with the fleece of my sheep; ### 21 If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate: ### 22 let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone. ### 23 For destruction God a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure. ### 24 If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, my confidence; ### 25 If I rejoiced because my wealth great, and because mine hand had gotten much; ### 26 If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking brightness; ### 27 And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand: ### 28 This also an iniquity the judge: for I should have denied the God above. ### 29 If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him: ### 30 Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul. ### 31 If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied. ### 32 The stranger did not lodge in the street: I opened my doors to the traveller. ### 33 If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom: ### 34 Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, went not out of the door? ### 35 Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire the Almighty would answer me, and mine adversary had written a book. ### 36 Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, bind it a crown to me. ### 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 against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain; ### 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.