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# Job 31

[1](#verse-1) “I made a covenant with my eyes; how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?

[2](#verse-2) For what is the portion from God above, and the heritage from the Almighty on high?

[3](#verse-3) Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?

[4](#verse-4) Doesn’t he see my ways, and count all my steps?

[5](#verse-5) “If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot has hurried to deceit

[6](#verse-6) (let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity);

[7](#verse-7) if my step has turned out of the way, if my heart walked after my eyes, if any defilement has stuck to my hands,

[8](#verse-8) then let me sow, and let another eat. Yes, let the produce of my field be rooted out.

[9](#verse-9) “If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbor’s door,

[10](#verse-10) then let my wife grind for another, and let others sleep with her.

[11](#verse-11) For that would be a heinous crime. Yes, it would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges,

[12](#verse-12) for it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase.

[13](#verse-13) “If I have despised the cause of my male servant or of my female servant, when they contended with me,

[14](#verse-14) what then will I do when God rises up? When he visits, what will I answer him?

[15](#verse-15) Didn’t he who made me in the womb make him? Didn’t one fashion us in the womb?

[16](#verse-16) “If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

[17](#verse-17) or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it

[18](#verse-18) (no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, I have guided her from my mother’s womb);

[19](#verse-19) if I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;

[20](#verse-20) if his heart hasn’t blessed me, if he hasn’t been warmed with my sheep’s fleece;

[21](#verse-21) if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate;

[22](#verse-22) then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from the bone.

[23](#verse-23) For calamity from God is a terror to me. Because of his majesty, I can do nothing.

[24](#verse-24) “If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, ‘You are my confidence;’

[25](#verse-25) If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;

[26](#verse-26) if I have seen the sun when it shined, or the moon moving in splendor,

[27](#verse-27) and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth;

[28](#verse-28) this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges, for I would have denied the God who is above.

[29](#verse-29) “If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him

[30](#verse-30) (I have certainly not allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse);

[31](#verse-31) if the men of my tent have not said, ‘Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?’

[32](#verse-32) (the foreigner has not camped in the street, but I have opened my doors to the traveler);

[33](#verse-33) if like Adam I have covered my transgressions, by hiding my iniquity in my heart,

[34](#verse-34) because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and didn’t go out of the door—

[35](#verse-35) oh that I had one to hear me! Behold, here is my signature! Let the Almighty answer me! Let the accuser write my indictment!

[36](#verse-36) Surely I would carry it on my shoulder, and I would bind it to me as a crown.

[37](#verse-37) I would declare to him the number of my steps. I would go near to him like a prince.

[38](#verse-38) If my land cries out against me, and its furrows weep together;

[39](#verse-39) if I have eaten its fruits without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life,

[40](#verse-40) let briers grow instead of wheat, and stinkweed instead of barley.” The words of Job are ended.

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