Jubilee2000 - Job - 31

31:1  I made a covenant with my eyes; why then should I look upon a maid?

31:2  For what reward would God [give me] from above and [what] inheritance of the Almighty from on high?

31:3  Is there no destruction for the wicked? And banishment for the workers of iniquity?

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

31:5  If I have walked with falsehood or if my foot has hastened to deceit,

31:6  let me be weighed in a just balance, that God may know my integrity.

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

31:8  [then] let me sow, and let another eat, and let my offspring be rooted out.

31:9  If my heart has been deceived regarding a woman, or [if] I have laid in wait at my neighbour's door,

31:10  [then] let my wife grind for another, and let others bow down upon her.

31:11  For this is lewdness and iniquity that is proven.

31:12  For it [is] a fire [that] consumes unto Sheol and would root out all my increase.

31:13  If I had despised the right of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;

31:14  what then would I do when God rises up? And when he visits, what would I answer him?

31:15  Did not he that made me in the belly [also] make him? And did not [the same] one fashion us in the womb?

31:16  If I have disturbed the desire of the poor or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

31:17  or have eaten my morsel alone and the fatherless has not eaten thereof;

31:18  (for from my youth the [fatherless] was brought up with me, as [with] a father, and I have guided the [widow] from my mother's womb)

31:19  if I have seen any perish for want of clothing or any needy without [a] covering;

31:20  if his loins have not blessed me and [if] he were [not] warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

31:21  if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, even when I saw that they would all help me in the gate;

31:22  [then] let my back fall from my shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from its joint.

31:23  For I feared destruction [from] God, against whose highness I could have no power.

31:24  If I have made gold my hope or have said to the fine gold, [Thou art] my confidence;

31:25  if I rejoiced because my wealth [was] being multiplied, and because my hand had gotten much;

31:26  if I beheld the sun when it shone or the moon walking [in] beauty;

31:27  and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my mouth kissed my hand;

31:28  this would also be a proven iniquity; for I should have denied the God that is sovereign.

31:29  If I rejoiced at the destruction of the one that hated me or lifted up myself when evil found him;

31:30  for I have never even suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse upon his soul;

31:31  when the servants of my tent said, Oh that we had of his flesh! We would never 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 my iniquity in my bosom;

31:34  if I feared a great multitude or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, [and] did not go out of the door?

31:35  Oh that someone would hear me! Behold, my mark [is], [that] the Almighty will testify for me, even though my adversary had written down the charges.

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 I would go near unto him.

31:38  If my land cries against me and all its furrows likewise complain;

31:39  if I ate of its strength without money or have afflicted the soul of its owners;

31:40  let thistles grow up unto me instead of wheat and stinkweed instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.: