Job:31

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* I have made a covenant with my eyes ; how then could I look intently upon a virgin ? * For what is the portion from God above , and the inheritance of the Almighty from on high ? * Is it not destruction for the wicked , and calamity for the workers of iniquity ? * Does He not see my ways , and count all my steps ? * If I have walked with vanity , or if my foot has hastened to deceit , * let me be weighed on just scales , that God may know my integrity . * If my step has turned aside from the way , or my heart walked after my eyes , or if any blemish has clung to my hands , * then let me sow , and another eat ; yea , let my harvest be rooted out . * If my heart has been enticed by a woman , or if I have lurked at my neighbor ’s door , * then let my wife grind for another , and let others bow down over her . * For that would be wickedness ; yea , it would be perversity deserving of judgment . * For that would be a fire that devours to Abaddon , and would root out all my increase . * If I despised the cause of my male or female servant when they have a dispute with me , * what then shall I do when the Mighty God rises up ? When He reviews my case , what shall I answer Him ? * Did not He who made me in the womb make them ? Did not the same One fashion us in the womb ? * If I have withheld from the poor their desire , or caused the eyes of the widow to fail , * or eaten my morsel by myself , and the fatherless has not eaten of it * (when from my youth , as a father I have raised him , and from my mother ’s womb I guided her ); * if I have seen anyone perish for lack of clothing , or any poor man without covering ; * if his heart has not blessed me , and if he was not warmed with the fleece of my sheep ; * if I have waved my hand against the fatherless , when I was looking after my help in the gate ; * then let my shoulder fall from my back , and let my arm be broken from the joint . * For calamity from the Mighty God is a terror to me , and because of His majesty I could not do such things . * If I have made gold my hope , or said to fine gold , you are my confidence ; * if I have rejoiced because my wealth was great , and because my hand had acquired much ; * if I have observed the sun when it shines , or the moon moving in splendor , * so that my heart has been secretly enticed , and my mouth has kissed my hand ; * this also would be a perversity deserving of judgment , for I would have denied the Mighty God above . * If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me , or been excited when evil found him * (indeed I have not allowed my mouth to sin , to request a curse upon his soul ); * if the men of my tent have not said , who is there that is not satisfied with his flesh ? * (no sojourner had to pass the night in the street , for I have opened my doors to the traveler ); * if I have covered my transgressions as Adam , by hiding my iniquity in my bosom , * then let me fear the great multitude , and let the contempt of families terrify me , and I will keep silent and not go out of the door . * Oh , that I had one to hear me ! Behold , my desire is that the Almighty would answer me , that the man complaining had written an indictment ! * Surely I would carry it on my shoulder , and bind it on me like a crown ; * I would declare to Him the number of my steps ; like a prince I would approach Him . * If my land cries out against me , or its furrows weep together ; * if I have eaten its produce without money , or caused its owners to expire their souls ; * then let thistles come forth instead of wheat , and weeds instead of barley . The words of Job are finished .

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