# Job 31 [[Job-30|← Job 30]] | [[Job]] | [[Job-32|Job 32 →]] *** ###### v1 "I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman? ###### v2 For what is the portion from God above, and the heritage from the Almighty on high? ###### v3 Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity? ###### v4 Doesn't he see my ways, and count all my steps? ###### v5 "If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot has hurried to deceit ###### v6 (let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity); ###### v7 if my step has turned out of the way, if my heart walked after my eyes, if any defilement has stuck to my hands, ###### v8 then let me sow, and let another eat. Yes, let the produce of my field be rooted out. ###### v9 "If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbor's door, ###### v10 then let my wife grind for another, and let others sleep with her. ###### v11 For that would be a heinous crime. Yes, it would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges; ###### v12 for it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase. ###### v13 "If I have despised the cause of my male servant or of my female servant, when they contended with me, ###### v14 what then will I do when God rises up? When he visits, what will I answer him? ###### v15 Didn't he who made me in the womb make him? Didn't one fashion us in the womb? ###### v16 "If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail, ###### v17 or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it ###### v18 (no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, I have guided her from my mother's womb); ###### v19 if I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering; ###### v20 if his heart hasn't blessed me, if he hasn't been warmed with my sheep's fleece; ###### v21 if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate, ###### v22 then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from the bone. ###### v23 For calamity from God is a terror to me. Because of his majesty, I can do nothing. ###### v24 "If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, 'You are my confidence;' ###### v25 If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much; ###### v26 if I have seen the sun when it shined, or the moon moving in splendor, ###### v27 and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth, ###### v28 this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges; for I should have denied the God who is above. ###### v29 "If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him ###### v30 (yes, I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse); ###### v31 if the men of my tent have not said, 'Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?' ###### v32 (the foreigner has not camped in the street, but I have opened my doors to the traveler); ###### v33 if like Adam I have covered my transgressions, by hiding my iniquity in my heart, ###### v34 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-- ###### v35 oh that I had one to hear me! Behold, here is my signature! Let the Almighty answer me! Let the accuser write my indictment! ###### v36 Surely I would carry it on my shoulder; and I would bind it to me as a crown. ###### v37 I would declare to him the number of my steps. I would go near to him like a prince. ###### v38 If my land cries out against me, and its furrows weep together; ###### v39 if I have eaten its fruits without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life, ###### v40 let briers grow instead of wheat, and stinkweed instead of barley." The words of Job are ended. *** [[Job-30|← Job 30]] | [[Job]] | [[Job-32|Job 32 →]]