Job Chapter 31
31:1 | I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I ![]() |
31:2 | For what portion of God [is there] from above? and [what] inheritance of the Almighty from on high? |
31:3 | [Is] not destruction to the wicked? and a strange [punishment] to the workers of iniquity? |
31:4 | Doth not he ![]() |
31:5 | If I have walked with vanity, or if my ![]() |
31:6 | Let me be weighed in an even balance that God may know mine integrity. |
31:7 | 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; |
31:8 | [Then] let me sow, and let another eat; ![]() |
31:9 | If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or [if] I have laid wait at my neighbour' door; |
31:10 | [Then] let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her. |
31:11 | For this [is] an heinous crime; ![]() |
31:12 | For it [is] a fire [that] consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase. |
31:13 | If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me; |
31:14 | What then shall I ![]() ![]() |
31:15 | Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb? |
31:16 | If I have withheld the poor from [their] desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail; |
31:17 | Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof; |
31:18 | (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as [with] a father, and I have guided her from my mother' womb;) |
31:19 | If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering; |
31:20 | If his loins have not blessed me, and [if] he were [not] warmed with the fleece of my ![]() |
31:21 | If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate: |
31:22 | [Then] let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone. |
31:23 | For destruction [from] God [was] a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure. |
31:24 | If I have made ![]() ![]() ![]() |
31:25 | If I rejoiced because my wealth [was] great, and because mine hand had gotten much; |
31:26 | If I beheld the ![]() |
31:27 | And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand: |
31:28 | This also [were] an iniquity [to be punished by] the judge: for I should have denied the God [that is] above. |
31:29 | If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when ![]() |
31:30 | Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul. |
31:31 | If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied. |
31:32 | The stranger did not lodge in the street: [but] I opened my doors to the traveller. |
31:33 | If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom: |
31:34 | Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, [and] went not out of the door? |
31:35 | Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire [is, that] the Almighty would ![]() |
31:36 | Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, [and] bind it [as] a crown to me. |
31:37 | I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him. |
31:38 | If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain; |
31:39 | If I have eaten the fruits thereof without ![]() |
31:40 | Let thistles grow instead of ![]() |