31Job 31

1I made a covenant with my eyes, that I would not so much as think upon a virgin.Select Job 31:1

2For what part should God from above have in me, and what inheritance the Almighty from on high?Select Job 31:2

3Is not destruction to the wicked, and aversion to them that work iniquity?Select Job 31:3

4Doth not he consider my ways, and number all my steps?Select Job 31:4

5If I have walked in vanity, and my foot hath made haste to deceit:Select Job 31:5

6Let him weigh me in a just balance, and let God know my simplicity.Select Job 31:6

7If my step hath turned out of the way, and if my heart hath followed my eyes, and if a spot hath cleaved to my hands:Select Job 31:7

8Then let me sow and let another reap: and let my offspring be rooted out.Select Job 31:8

9If my heart hath been deceived upon a woman, and if I have laid wait at my friend's door:Select Job 31:9

10Let my wife be the harlot of another, and let other men lie with her.Select Job 31:10

11For this is a heinous crime, and a most grievous iniquity.Select Job 31:11

12It is a fire that devoureth even to destruction, and rooteth up all things that spring.Select Job 31:12

13If I have despised to abide judgment with my manservant, or my maidservant, when they had any controversy against me:Select Job 31:13

14For what shall I do when God shall rise to judge? and when he shall examine, what shall I answer him?Select Job 31:14

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

16If I have denied to the poor what they desired, and have made the eyes of the widow wait:Select Job 31:16

17If I have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof:Select Job 31:17

18(For from my infancy mercy grew up with me: and it came out with me from my mother's womb:)Select Job 31:18

19If I have despised him that was perishing for want of clothing, and the poor man that had no covering:Select Job 31:19

20If his sides 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, even when I saw myself superior in the gate:Select Job 31:21

22Let my shoulder fall from its joint, and let my arm with its bones be broken.Select Job 31:22

23For I have always feared God as waves swelling over me, and his weight I was unable to bear.Select Job 31:23

24If I have thought gold my strength, and have said to fine gold: My confidence:Select Job 31:24

25If I have rejoiced over my great riches, and because my hand had gotten much.Select Job 31:25

26If I beheld the sun when it shined and the moon going in brightness:Select Job 31:26

27And my heart in secret hath rejoiced, and I have kissed my hand with my mouth:Select Job 31:27

28Which is a very great iniquity, and a denial against the most high God.Select Job 31:28

29If I have been glad at the downfall of him that hated me, and have rejoiced that evil had found him.Select Job 31:29

30For I have not been given my mouth to sin, by wishing a curse to his soul.Select Job 31:30

31If the men of my tabernacle have not said: Who will give us of his flesh that we may be filled?Select Job 31:31

32The stranger did not stay without, my door was open to the traveller.Select Job 31:32

33If as a man I have hid my sin, and have concealed my iniquity in my bosom.Select Job 31:33

34If I have been afraid at a very great multitude, and the contempt of kinsmen hath terrified me: and have not rather held my peace, and not gone out of the door.Select Job 31:34

35Who would grant me a hearing, that the Almighty may hear my desire: and that he himself that judgeth would write a book,Select Job 31:35

36That I may carry it on my shoulder, and put it about me as a crown?Select Job 31:36

37At every step of mine I would pronounce it, and offer it as to a prince.Select Job 31:37

38If my land cry against me, and with it the furrows thereof mourn:Select Job 31:38

39If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, and have afflicted the son of the tillers thereof:Select Job 31:39

40Let thistles grow up to me instead of wheat, and thorns instead of barley.Select Job 31:40