dby - 31

dby@Job:31:1 @ I made a covenant with mine eyes; and how should I fix my regard upon a maid?

dby@Job:31:2 @ For what would have been [my] portion of +God from above, and what the heritage of the Almighty from on high?

dby@Job:31:3 @ Is not calamity for the unrighteous? and misfortune for the workers of iniquity?

dby@Job:31:4 @ Doth not he see my ways, and number all my steps?

dby@Job:31:5 @ If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot hath hasted to deceit,

dby@Job:31:6 @ (Let me be weighed in an even balance, and +God will take knowledge of my blamelessness;)

dby@Job:31:7 @ If my step have turned out of the way, and my heart followed mine eyes, and if any blot cleaveth to my hands;

dby@Job:31:8 @ Let me sow, and another eat; and let mine offspring be rooted out.

dby@Job:31:9 @ If my heart have been enticed unto a woman, so that I laid wait at my neighbour's door,

dby@Job:31:10 @ Let my wife grind for another, and let others bow down upon her.

dby@Job:31:11 @ For this is an infamy; yea, it is an iniquity [to be judged by] the judges:

dby@Job:31:12 @ For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.

dby@Job:31:13 @ If I have despised the cause of my bondman or of my bondmaid, when they contended with me,

dby@Job:31:14 @ What then should I do when �God riseth up? and if he visited, what should I answer him?

dby@Job:31:15 @ Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not One fashion us in the womb?

dby@Job:31:16 @ If I have withheld the poor from [their] desire, or caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

dby@Job:31:17 @ Or have eaten my morsel alone, so that the fatherless ate not thereof,

dby@Job:31:18 @ (For from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, and I have guided the [widow] from my mother's womb;)

dby@Job:31:19 @ If I have seen any perishing for want of clothing, or any needy without covering;

dby@Job:31:20 @ If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my lambs;

dby@Job:31:21 @ If I have lifted up my hand against an orphan, because I saw my help in the gate:

dby@Job:31:22 @ [Then] let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone!

dby@Job:31:23 @ For calamity from �God was a terror to me, and by reason of his excellency I was powerless.

dby@Job:31:24 @ If I have made gold my hope, or said to the fine gold, My confidence!

dby@Job:31:25 @ If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;

dby@Job:31:26 @ If I beheld the sun when it shone, or the moon walking in brightness,

dby@Job:31:27 @ And my heart have been secretly enticed, so that my mouth kissed my hand:

dby@Job:31:28 @ This also would be an iniquity for the judge, for I should have denied the �God who is above.

dby@Job:31:29 @ If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, and exulted when evil befell him;

dby@Job:31:30 @ (Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse;)

dby@Job:31:31 @ If the men of my tent said not, Who shall find one that hath not been satisfied with his meat? --

dby@Job:31:32 @ The stranger did not lodge without; I opened my doors to the pathway.

dby@Job:31:33 @ If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom,

dby@Job:31:34 @ 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,...

dby@Job:31:35 @ Oh that I had one to hear me! Behold my signature: let the Almighty answer me! And let mine opponent write an accusation!

dby@Job:31:36 @ Would I not take it upon my shoulder? I would bind it on to me [as] a crown;

dby@Job:31:37 @ I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I come near to him.

dby@Job:31:38 @ If my land cry out against me, and its furrows weep together;

dby@Job:31:39 @ If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, and have tormented to death the souls of its owners:

dby@Job:31:40 @ Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and tares instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.

Job 31