Job 31

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  1. 1

    I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?

    Job 31:1KJV

  2. 2

    For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?

    Job 31:2KJV

  3. 3

    Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?

    Job 31:3KJV

  4. 4

    Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?

    Job 31:4KJV

  5. 5

    If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;

    Job 31:5KJV

  6. 6

    Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity.

    Job 31:6KJV

  7. 7

    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 31:7KJV

  8. 8

    Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.

    Job 31:8KJV

  9. 9

    If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour's door;

    Job 31:9KJV

  10. 10

    Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.

    Job 31:10KJV

  11. 11

    For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.

    Job 31:11KJV

  12. 12

    For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.

    Job 31:12KJV

  13. 13

    If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;

    Job 31:13KJV

  14. 14

    What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?

    Job 31:14KJV

  15. 15

    Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?

    Job 31:15KJV

  16. 16

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

    Job 31:16KJV

  17. 17

    Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;

    Job 31:17KJV

  18. 18

    (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 31:18KJV

  19. 19

    If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;

    Job 31:19KJV

  20. 20

    If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

    Job 31:20KJV

  21. 21

    If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:

    Job 31:21KJV

  22. 22

    Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.

    Job 31:22KJV

  23. 23

    For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.

    Job 31:23KJV

  24. 24

    If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;

    Job 31:24KJV

  25. 25

    If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much;

    Job 31:25KJV

  26. 26

    If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;

    Job 31:26KJV

  27. 27

    And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand:

    Job 31:27KJV

  28. 28

    This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.

    Job 31:28KJV

  29. 29

    If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:

    Job 31:29KJV

  30. 30

    Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.

    Job 31:30KJV

  31. 31

    If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.

    Job 31:31KJV

  32. 32

    The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller.

    Job 31:32KJV

  33. 33

    If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:

    Job 31:33KJV

  34. 34

    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 31:34KJV

  35. 35

    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 31:35KJV

  36. 36

    Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.

    Job 31:36KJV

  37. 37

    I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.

    Job 31:37KJV

  38. 38

    If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;

    Job 31:38KJV

  39. 39

    If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:

    Job 31:39KJV

  40. 40

    Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.

    Job 31:40KJV

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