LITV - Job - 31

31:1  I made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I look intently on a virgin?

31:2  For what is the portion from God above? And what is the legacy from the Almighty on high?

31:3  Is it not disaster to the perverse, and calamity to the workers of iniquity?

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

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

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

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

31:8  let me sow, and let another eat; and let my harvests be rooted out.

31:9  If my heart has been enticed by a woman; or I have laid wait at my neighbor's door,

31:10  let my wife grind to another, and let others crouch over her.

31:11  For that would be an evil scheme, and is iniquity for judges.

31:12  For it is a fire that devours to the Place of Ruin, and it would root up all my gain.

31:13  If I despised the cause of my male slave or my slave-girl when they contended with me,

31:14  what then shall I do when God rises up? And when He calls me to account, what shall I answer Him?

31:15  Did not He who made me in the belly make him? And did not One shape us in the womb?

31:16  If I have withheld from the desire of the poor, or I have caused the widow's eyes to fail,

31:17  or have eaten my bit alone, and the orphan has not eaten it,

31:18  for from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, and from my mother's womb I guided her.

31:19  If I have seen any perish for lack of clothing, or there was no covering for the needy;

31:20  if his loins have not blessed me, and he warmed himself with the fleece of my flock;

31:21  if I have lifted up my hand against the orphan, when I watched over my help in the gate;

31:22  let my shoulder fall from the back, and let my arm be broken from the elbow.

31:23  for trouble from God is a terror to me, and I could not do the thing because of His majesty.

31:24  If I have made gold my hope or have called fine gold my trust;

31:25  if I rejoiced because my wealth was great; or because my hand had gotten much;

31:26  if I looked to the light when it shone, or the moon marching in splendor,

31:27  and my heart was secretly enticed. or my mouth has kissed my hand;

31:28  this also would be an iniquity for the judges; for I would have denied God above.

31:29  If I rejoiced at the ruin of my enemy, and I was excited when evil found him;

31:30  also I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse;

31:31  if the men of my tent did not say, Who can find one not being satisfied from his meat,

31:32  the stranger did not sleep in the street, for I opened my doors to the traveler;

31:33  if I covered my transgressions like Adam, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom,

31:34  then let me fear before a great multitude, and let the scorn of families frighten me and I will be silent, and not go out the door.

31:35  Oh that I had one to hear me! See, my mark! Let the Almighty answer me, and let my Accuser write an indictment.

31:36  Surely I would carry it on my shoulder, and bind it like crowns to me.

31:37  I would tell Him the number of my steps. Like a prince I would go near Him.

31:38  If my land cries out against me, or its furrows weep together;

31:39  if I have eaten its strength without silver, or have caused its owner to expire;

31:40  let thorns come forth instead of wheat, and a weed instead of barley. The words of Job are finished.