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job 31

1 - "I made a covenant with my eyes,how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?

2 - For what is the portion from God above,and the heritage from the Almighty on high?

3 - Is it not calamity to the unrighteous,and disaster to the workers of iniquity?

4 - Doesn't he see my ways,and count all my steps?

5 - "If I have walked with falsehood,and my foot has hurried to deceit

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

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 - then let me sow, and let another eat.Yes, let the produce of my field be rooted out.

9 - "If my heart has been enticed to a woman,and I have laid wait at my neighbor's door,

10 - then let my wife grind for another,and let others sleep with her.

11 - For that would be a heinous crime.Yes, it would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges:

12 - For it is a fire that consumes to destruction,and would root out all my increase.

13 - "If I have despised the cause of my male servantor of my female servant,when they contended with me;

14 - What then shall I do when God rises up?When he visits, what shall I answer him?

15 - Didn't he who made me in the womb make him?Didn't one fashion us in the womb?

16 - "If I have withheld the poor from their desire,or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

17 - or have eaten my morsel alone,and the fatherless has not eaten of it

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

19 - if I have seen any perish for want of clothing,or that the needy had no covering;

20 - if his heart hasn't blessed me,if he hasn't been warmed with my sheep's fleece;

21 - if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless,because I saw my help in the gate,

22 - then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder blade,and my arm be broken from the bone.

23 - For calamity from God is a terror to me.Because his majesty, I can do nothing.

24 - "If I have made gold my hope,and have said to the fine gold, 'You are my confidence;'

25 - If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great,and because my hand had gotten much;

26 - if I have seen the sun when it shined,or the moon moving in splendor,

27 - and my heart has been secretly enticed,and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth,

28 - this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges;for I should have denied the God who is above.

29 - "If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me,or lifted up myself when evil found him

30 - (yes, I have not allowed my mouth to sinby asking his life with a curse);

31 - if the men of my tent have not said,'Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?'

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

33 - if like Adam I have covered my transgressions,by hiding my iniquity in my heart,

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 - 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 - Surely I would carry it on my shoulder;and I would bind it to me as a crown.

37 - I would declare to him the number of my steps.as a prince would I go near to him.

38 - If my land cries out against me,and its furrows weep together;

39 - if I have eaten its fruits without money,or have caused its owners to lose their life,

40 - let briers grow instead of wheat,and stinkweed instead of barley."The words of Job are ended.

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