jps - 31

jps@Job:31:1 @ I made a covenant with mine eyes; how then should I look upon a maid?

jps@Job:31:2 @ For what would be the portion of God from above, and the heritage of the Almighty from on high?

jps@Job:31:3 @ Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?

jps@Job:31:4 @ Doth not He see my ways, and count all my steps?

jps@Job:31:5 @ If I have walked with vanity, and my foot hath hasted to deceit--

jps@Job:31:6 @ Let me be weighed in a just balance, that God may know mine integrity--

jps@Job:31:7 @ 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;

jps@Job:31:8 @ Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let the produce of my field be rooted out.

jps@Job:31:9 @ If my heart have been enticed unto a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbour's door;

jps@Job:31:10 @ Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.

jps@Job:31:11 @ For that were a heinous crime; yea, it were an iniquity to be punished by the judges.

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

jps@Job:31:13 @ If I did despise the cause of my man-servant, or of my maid-servant, when they contended with me--

jps@Job:31:14 @ What then shall I do when God riseth up? And when He remembereth, what shall I answer Him?

jps@Job:31:15 @ Did not He that made me in the womb make him? And did not One fashion us in the womb?

jps@Job:31:16 @ If I have withheld aught that the poor desired, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

jps@Job:31:17 @ Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof--

jps@Job:31:18 @ Nay, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, and I have been her guide from my mother's womb.

jps@Job:31:19 @ If I have seen any wanderer in want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;

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

jps@Job:31:21 @ If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate;

jps@Job:31:22 @ Then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.

jps@Job:31:23 @ For calamity from God was a terror to me, and by reason of His majesty I could do nothing.

jps@Job:31:24 @ If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold: 'Thou art my confidence';

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

jps@Job:31:26 @ If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;

jps@Job:31:27 @ And my heart hath been secretly enticed, and my mouth hath kissed my hand;

jps@Job:31:28 @ This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judges; for I should have lied to God that is above.

jps@Job:31:29 @ If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or exulted when evil found him--

jps@Job:31:30 @ Yea, I suffered not my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse.

jps@Job:31:31 @ If the men of my tent said not: 'Who can find one that hath not been satisfied with his meat?'

jps@Job:31:32 @ The stranger did not lodge in the street; my doors I opened to the roadside.

jps@Job:31:33 @ If after the manner of men I covered my transgressions, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom--

jps@Job:31:34 @ 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.

jps@Job:31:35 @ 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!

jps@Job:31:36 @ Surely I would carry it upon my shoulder; I would bind it unto me as a crown.

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

jps@Job:31:38 @ If my land cry out against me, and the furrows thereof weep together;

jps@Job:31:39 @ If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the tillers thereof to be disappointed--

jps@Job:31:40 @ Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and noisome weeds instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.

Job 31