Job 31:1 (KJV)
I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?

Job 31:2 (KJV)
For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?

Job 31:3 (KJV)
Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?

Job 31:4 (KJV)
Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?

Job 31:5 (KJV)
If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;

Job 31:6 (KJV)
Let me be weighed in an even balance that God may know mine integrity.

Job 31:7 (KJV)
If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;

Job 31:8 (KJV)
Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.

Job 31:9 (KJV)
If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour's door;

Job 31:10 (KJV)
Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.

Job 31:11 (KJV)
For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.

Job 31:12 (KJV)
For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.

Job 31:13 (KJV)
If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;

Job 31:14 (KJV)
What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?

Job 31:15 (KJV)
Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?

Job 31:16 (KJV)
If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

Job 31:17 (KJV)
Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;

Job 31:18 (KJV)
(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)

Job 31:19 (KJV)
If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;

Job 31:20 (KJV)
If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

Job 31:21 (KJV)
If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:

Job 31:22 (KJV)
Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.

Job 31:23 (KJV)
For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.

Job 31:24 (KJV)
If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;

Job 31:25 (KJV)
If I rejoice because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much;

Job 31:26 (KJV)
If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;

Job 31:27 (KJV)
And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand:

Job 31:28 (KJV)
This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.

Job 31:29 (KJV)
If I rejoice at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:

Job 31:30 (KJV)
Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.

Job 31:31 (KJV)
If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.

Job 31:32 (KJV)
The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller.

Job 31:33 (KJV)
If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:

Job 31:34 (KJV)
Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door?

Job 31:35 (KJV)
Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.

Job 31:36 (KJV)
Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.

Job 31:37 (KJV)
I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.

Job 31:38 (KJV)
If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;

Job 31:39 (KJV)
If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:

Job 31:40 (KJV)
Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.
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