| 31 | Job | ||
| 1 | "I have made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I look upon a virgin? | ||
| 2 | What would be my portion from God above, and my heritage from the Almighty on high? | ||
| 3 | Does not calamity befall the unrighteous, and disaster the workers of iniquity? | ||
| 4 | Does not he see my ways, and number all my steps? | ||
| 5 | "If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot has hastened to deceit; | ||
| 6 | (Let me be weighed in a just balance, and let God know my integrity!) | ||
| 7 | if my step has turned aside from the way, and my heart has gone after my eyes, and if any spot has cleaved to my hands; | ||
| 8 | then let me sow, and another eat; and let what grows for me be rooted out. | ||
| 9 | "If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbour's door; | ||
| 10 | then let my wife grind for another, and let others bow down upon her. | ||
| 11 | For that would be a heinous crime; that would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges; | ||
| 12 | for that would be a fire which consumes unto Abaddon, and it would burn to the root all my increase. | ||
| 13 | "If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or my maidservant, when they brought a complaint against me; | ||
| 14 | what then shall I do when God rises up? When he makes inquiry, what shall I answer him? | ||
| 15 | Did not he who made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb? | ||
| 16 | "If I have withheld anything that the poor desired, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail, | ||
| 17 | or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it | ||
| 18 | (for from his youth I reared him as a father, and from his mother's womb I guided him); | ||
| 19 | if I have seen any one perish for lack of clothing, or a poor man without covering; | ||
| 20 | if his loins have not blessed me, and if he was not warmed with the fleece of my sheep; | ||
| 21 | if I have raised my hand against the fatherless, because I saw help in the gate; | ||
| 22 | then let my shoulder blade fall from my shoulder, and let my arm be broken from its socket. | ||
| 23 | For I was in terror of calamity from God, and I could not have faced his majesty. | ||
| 24 | "If I have made gold my trust, or called fine gold my confidence; | ||
| 25 | if I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, or because my hand had gotten much; | ||
| 26 | if I have looked at the sun when it shone, or the moon moving in splendour, | ||
| 27 | and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my mouth has kissed my hand; | ||
| 28 | this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges, for I should have been false to God above. | ||
| 29 | "If I have rejoiced at the ruin of him that hated me, or exulted when evil overtook him | ||
| 30 | (I have not let my mouth sin by asking for his life with a curse); | ||
| 31 | if the men of my tent have not said, 'Who is there that has not been filled with his meat? | ||
| 32 | (the sojourner has not lodged in the street; I have opened my doors to the wayfarer); | ||
| 33 | if I have concealed my transgressions from men, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom, | ||
| 34 | because I stood in great fear of the multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and did not go out of doors - | ||
| 35 | Oh, that I had one to hear me! (Here is my signature! let the Almighty answer me!) Oh, that I had the indictment written by my adversary! | ||
| 36 | Surely I would carry it on my shoulder; I would bind it on me as a crown; | ||
| 37 | I would give him an account of all my steps; like a prince I would approach him. | ||
| 38 | "If my land has cried out against me, and its furrows have wept together; | ||
| 39 | if I have eaten its yield without payment, and caused the death of its owners; | ||
| 40 | let thorns grow instead of wheat, and foul weeds instead of barley."The words of Job are ended. | ||
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