Job Chapter 31 (KJV)

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undefined I made a covenant with mine eyes;How then should I look upon a virgin?

undefined For what is the portion from God above,And the heritage from the Almighty on high?

undefined Is it not calamity to the unrighteous,And disaster to the workers of iniquity?

undefined Doth not he see my ways,And number all my steps?

undefined If I have walked with falsehood,And my foot hath hasted to deceit

undefined (Let me be weighed in an even balance,That God may know mine integrity);

undefined 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:

undefined Then let me sow, and let another eat;Yea, let the produce of my field be rooted out.

undefined If my heart hath been enticed unto a woman,And I have laid wait at my neighbor’s door;

undefined Then let my wife grind unto another,And let others bow down upon her.

undefined For that were a heinous crime;Yea, it were an iniquity to be punished by the judges:

undefined For it is a fire that consumeth unto Destruction,And would root out all mine increase.

undefined If I have despised the cause of my man-servant or of my maid-servant,When they contended with me;

undefined What then shall I do when God riseth up?And when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?

undefined Did not he that made me in the womb make him?And did not one fashion us in the womb?

undefined If I have withheld the poor from their desire,Or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

undefined Or have eaten my morsel alone,And the fatherless hath not eaten thereof

undefined (Nay, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father,And her have I guided from my mother’s womb);

undefined If I have seen any perish for want of clothing,Or that the needy had no covering;

undefined If his loins have not blessed me,And if he hath not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

undefined If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless,Because I saw my help in the gate:

undefined Then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade,And mine arm be broken from the bone.

undefined For calamity from God is a terror to me,And by reason of his majesty I can do nothing.

undefined If I have made gold my hope,And have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;

undefined If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great,And because my hand had gotten much;

undefined If I have beheld the sun when it shined,Or the moon walking in brightness,

undefined And my heart hath been secretly enticed,And my mouth hath kissed my hand:

undefined This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judges;For I should have denied the God that is above.

undefined If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me,Or lifted up myself when evil found him

undefined (Yea, I have not suffered my mouth to sinBy asking his life with a curse);

undefined If the men of my tent have not said,Who can find one that hath not been filled with his meat?

undefined (The sojourner hath not lodged in the street;But I have opened my doors to the traveller);

undefined If like Adam I have covered my transgressions,By hiding mine iniquity in my bosom,

undefined Because I feared the great multitude,And the contempt of families terrified me,So that I kept silence, and went not out of the door—

undefined 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!

undefined Surely I would carry it upon my shoulder;I would bind it unto me as a crown:

undefined I would declare unto him the number of my steps;As a prince would I go near unto him.

undefined If my land crieth out against me,And the furrows thereof weep together;

undefined If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money,Or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:

undefined Let thistles grow instead of wheat,And cockle instead of barley.The words of Job are ended.

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