31Job 31

1I made a covenant with my eyes; why then should I think on a maid?Select Job 31:1

2For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?Select Job 31:2

3Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?Select Job 31:3

4Does not he see my ways, and count all my steps?Select Job 31:4

5If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot has hurried to deceit;Select Job 31:5

6Let me be weighed in an even balance that God may know my integrity.Select Job 31:6

7If my step has turned out of the way, and my heart walked after my eyes, and if any blot has stuck to my hands;Select Job 31:7

8Then let me sow, and let another eat; yes, let my offspring be rooted out.Select Job 31:8

9If my heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbor’s door;Select Job 31:9

10Then let my wife grind to another, and let others bow down on her.Select Job 31:10

11For this is an heinous crime; yes, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.Select Job 31:11

12For it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase.Select Job 31:12

13If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;Select Job 31:13

14What then shall I do when God rises up? and when he visits, what shall I answer him?Select Job 31:14

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

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

17Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless has not eaten thereof;Select Job 31:17

18(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother’s womb;)Select Job 31:18

19If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;Select Job 31:19

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

21If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:Select Job 31:21

22Then let my arm fall from my shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from the bone.Select Job 31:22

23For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.Select Job 31:23

24If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, You are my confidence;Select Job 31:24

25If I rejoice because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;Select Job 31:25

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

27And my heart has been secretly enticed, or my mouth has kissed my hand:Select Job 31:27

28This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.Select Job 31:28

29If I rejoice at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:Select Job 31:29

30Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.Select Job 31:30

31If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.Select Job 31:31

32The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the travelers.Select Job 31:32

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

34Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door?Select Job 31:34

35Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that my adversary had written a book.Select Job 31:35

36Surely I would take it on my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.Select Job 31:36

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

38If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;Select Job 31:38

39If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:Select Job 31:39

40Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.Select Job 31:40