| Job 31:1 |
I made a covenant with my eyes; / How then can I gaze upon a virgin? |
| Job 31:2 |
What then is the portion from God above, / Or the inheritance of the Almighty on high? |
| Job 31:3 |
Is it not calamity for the unjust / And misfortune for the workers of iniquity? |
| Job 31:4 |
Does He not see my ways / And count all my steps? |
| Job 31:5 |
If I have walked with falsehood, / And my foot has hastened after deceit-- |
| Job 31:6 |
Let Him weigh me in a righteous balance, / And let God know my integrity-- |
| Job 31:7 |
If my step has turned from the way, / And my heart has gone after my own eyes, / And if any spot has stuck to my hands; |
| Job 31:8 |
May I sow and another eat; / Indeed may my produce be rooted up. |
| Job 31:9 |
If my heart has been enticed into [following] after a woman, / Or I have lain in wait at my neighbor's door; |
| Job 31:10 |
May my wife grind for another, / And may others kneel over her. |
| Job 31:11 |
For that would have been a heinous act, / And it would be wickedness, [to be punished] by the judges. |
| Job 31:12 |
For it is a fire that devours to Abaddon / And would root up all my increase. |
| Job 31:13 |
If I have despised the cause of my servant or my maid / When they contended with me, |
| Job 31:14 |
What then will I do when God rises up? / And when He visits me, what will I answer Him? |
| Job 31:15 |
Did not He who made me in the womb make him? / And was it not One who fashioned us in the womb? |
| Job 31:16 |
If I have withheld the poor from [their] desire, / Or have let the eyes of the widow fail, |
| Job 31:17 |
Or have eaten my morsel alone / Without the orphan eating of it-- |
| Job 31:18 |
Rather, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, / And from my mother's womb I guided the widow-- |
| Job 31:19 |
If I have seen someone perishing from lack of clothing / Or that the needy had no covering; |
| Job 31:20 |
If his loins have not blessed me, / And he has not been made warm with the fleece of my sheep; |
| Job 31:21 |
If I have raised my hand against the orphan / Because I saw that I had support [among those] in the gate; |
| Job 31:22 |
May my shoulder blade fall from the shoulder, / And may my arm be broken at the elbow. |
| Job 31:23 |
For calamity from God is dreadful to me, / And because of His majesty I can do nothing. |
| Job 31:24 |
If I have made gold my hope, / And have called fine gold my confidence; |
| Job 31:25 |
If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great / And because my hand had acquired much; |
| Job 31:26 |
If I have looked at the sun when it shone / Or the moon going on in splendor, |
| Job 31:27 |
And my heart has been secretly enticed, / And my mouth has kissed my hand; |
| Job 31:28 |
It too would be wickedness, [to be punished] by the judges, / For I would have denied God above. |
| Job 31:29 |
If I have rejoiced at the misfortune of him who hated me, / Or have exulted when evil found him-- |
| Job 31:30 |
Rather, I have not allowed my mouth to sin / By asking for his life with a curse-- |
| Job 31:31 |
If the men of my tent have not said, / Who can find one who has not been filled with our master's meat?-- |
| Job 31:32 |
The sojourner has not lodged in the street; / I have opened my doors to the highway-- |
| Job 31:33 |
If I have covered my transgressions as Adam did / By hiding my iniquity in my bosom, |
| Job 31:34 |
Because I so dreaded the great multitude, / And the contempt of the families so frightened me, / That I was silent and did not go out [my] door-- |
| Job 31:35 |
Oh, that I had someone to hear me! / Here is my signature! Let the Almighty answer me. / And let my accuser write up the charge. |
| Job 31:36 |
Surely I would carry it on my shoulder; / I would bind it onto me like a crown; |
| Job 31:37 |
I would declare to Him the number of my steps; / Like a prince I would approach Him! |
| Job 31:38 |
If my land cries out against me, / And its furrows weep together; |
| Job 31:39 |
If I have eaten its strength without money, / And have caused its owners to lose [their] life; |
| Job 31:40 |
May thorns come forth instead of wheat, / And pungent weeds instead of barley. / The words of Job are ended. |