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Job 31

Jewish Publication Society 1917 · Berean Standard Bible

31:1

I made a covenant with mine eyes; How then should I look upon a maid?

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31:2

For what would be the portion of God from above, And the heritage of the Almighty from on high?

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31:3

Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, And disaster to the workers of iniquity?

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31:4

Doth not He see my ways, And count all my steps?

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31:5

If I have walked with vanity, And my foot hath hasted to deceit—

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31:6

Let me be weighed in a just balance, That God may know mine integrity—

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31:7

If my step hath turned out of the way, And my heart walked after mine eyes, And if any spot hath cleaved to my hands;

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31:8

Then let me sow, and let another eat; Yea, let the produce of my field be rooted out.

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31:9

If my heart have been enticed unto a woman, And I have lain in wait at my neighbour’s door;

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31:10

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

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31:11

For that were a heinous crime; Yea, it were an iniquity to be punished by the judges.

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31:12

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

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31:13

If I did despise the cause of my man-servant, Or of my maid-servant, when they contended with me—

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31:14

What then shall I do when God riseth up? And when He remembereth, what shall I answer Him?

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31:15

Did not He that made me in the womb make him? And did not One fashion us in the womb?

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31:16

If I have withheld aught that the poor desired, Or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

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31:17

Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, And the fatherless hath not eaten thereof—

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31:18

Nay, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, And I have been her guide from my mother’s womb.

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31:19

If I have seen any wanderer in want of clothing, Or that the needy had no covering;

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31:20

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

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31:21

If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, Because I saw my help in the gate;

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31:22

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

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31:23

For calamity from God was a terror to me, And by reason of His majesty I could do nothing.

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31:24

If I have made gold my hope, And have said to the fine gold: ‘Thou art my confidence’;

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31:25

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

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31:26

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

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31:27

And my heart hath been secretly enticed, And my mouth hath kissed my hand;

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31:28

This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judges; For I should have lied to God that is above.

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31:29

If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, Or exulted when evil found him—

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31:30

Yea, I suffered not my mouth to sin By asking his life with a curse.

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31:31

If the men of my tent said not: ‘Who can find one that hath not been satisfied with his meat?’ .

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31:32

The stranger did not lodge in the street; My doors I opened to the roadside.

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31:33

If after the manner of men I covered my transgressions, By hiding mine iniquity in my bosom—

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31:34

Because I feared the great multitude, And the most contemptible among families terrified me, So that I kept silence, and went not out of the door.

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31:35

Oh that I had one to hear me!— Lo, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me— And that I had the indictment which mine adversary hath written!

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31:36

Surely I would carry it upon my shoulder; I would bind it unto me as a crown.

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31:37

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

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31:38

If my land cry out against me, And the furrows thereof weep together;

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31:39

If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, Or have caused the tillers thereof to be disappointed—

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31:40

Let thistles grow instead of wheat, And noisome weeds instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.

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