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 31:1  I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I
think upon a maid?
 31:2  For what portion of God [is there] from above? and
[what] inheritance of the Almighty from on high?
 31:3  [Is] not destruction to the wicked? and a strange
[punishment] to the workers of iniquity?
 31:4  Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?
 31:5  If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted
to deceit;
 31:6  Let me be weighed in an even balance that God may know
mine integrity.
 31:7  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;
 31:8  [Then] let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my
offspring be rooted out.
 31:9  If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or [if] I
have laid wait at my neighbour's door;
 31:10  [Then] let my wife grind unto another, and let others
bow down upon her.
 31:11  For this [is] an heinous crime; yea, it [is] an
iniquity [to be punished by] the judges.
 31:12  For it [is] a fire [that] consumeth to destruction, and
would root out all mine increase.
 31:13  If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my
maidservant, when they contended with me;
 31:14  What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he
visiteth, what shall I answer him?
 31:15  Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did
not one fashion us in the womb?
 31:16  If I have withheld the poor from [their] desire, or
have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
 31:17  Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the
fatherless hath not eaten thereof;
 31:18  (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as [with]
a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)
 31:19  If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any
poor without covering;
 31:20  If his loins have not blessed me, and [if] he were
[not] warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
 31:21  If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless,
when I saw my help in the gate:
 31:22  [Then] let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and
mine arm be broken from the bone.
 31:23  For destruction [from] God [was] a terror to me, and by
reason of his highness I could not endure.
 31:24  If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine
gold, [Thou art] my confidence;
 31:25  If I rejoiced because my wealth [was] great, and
because mine hand had gotten much;
 31:26  If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking
[in] brightness;
 31:27  And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth
hath kissed my hand:
 31:28  This also [were] an iniquity [to be punished by] the
judge: for I should have denied the God [that is] above.
 31:29  If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me,
or lifted up myself when evil found him:
 31:30  Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a
curse to his soul.
 31:31  If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of
his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.
 31:32  The stranger did not lodge in the street: [but] I
opened my doors to the traveller.
 31:33  If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine
iniquity in my bosom:
 31:34  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?
 31:35  Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire [is, that]
the Almighty would answer me, and [that] mine adversary had
written a book.
 31:36  Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, [and] bind it
[as] a crown to me.
 31:37  I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a
prince would I go near unto him.
 31:38  If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise
thereof complain;
 31:39  If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or
have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:
 31:40  Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead
of barley. The words of Job are ended.