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Job 31 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:1 - I made an agreement with my eyes; how then might my eyes be looking on a virgin?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:2 - For what is God's reward from on high, or the heritage given by the Ruler of all from heaven?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:3 - Is it not trouble for the sinner, and destruction for the evil-doers?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:4 - Does he not see my ways, and are not my steps all numbered?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:5 - If I have gone in false ways, or my foot has been quick in working deceit;

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:6 - (Let me be measured in upright scales, and let God see my righteousness:)

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:7 - If my steps have been turned out of the way, or if my heart went after my eyes, or if the property of another is in my hands;

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:8 - Let me put seed in the earth for another to have the fruit of it, and let my produce be uprooted.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:9 - If my heart went after another man's wife, or if I was waiting secretly at my neighbour's door;

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:10 - Then let my wife give pleasure to another man and let others make use of her body.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:11 - For that would be a crime; it would be an act for which punishment would be measured out by the judges:

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:12 - It would be a fire burning even to destruction, and taking away all my produce.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:13 - If I did wrong in the cause of my man-servant, or my woman-servant, when they went to law with me;

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:14 - What then will I do when God comes as my judge? and what answer may I give to his questions?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:15 - Did not God make him as well as me? did he not give us life in our mothers' bodies?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:16 - If I kept back the desire of the poor; if the widow's eye was looking for help to no purpose;

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:17 - If I kept my food for myself, and did not give some of it to the child with no father;

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:18 - (For I was cared for by God as by a father from my earliest days; he was my guide from the body of my mother;)

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:19 - If I saw one near to death for need of clothing, and that the poor had nothing covering him;

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:20 - If his back did not give me a blessing, and the wool of my sheep did not make him warm;

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:21 - If my hand had been lifted up against him who had done no wrong, when I saw that I was supported by the judges;

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:22 - May my arm be pulled from my body, and be broken from its base.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:23 - For the fear of God kept me back, and because of his power I might not do such things.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:24 - If I made gold my hope, or if I ever said to the best gold, I have put my faith in you;

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:25 - If I was glad because my wealth was great, and because my hand had got together a great store;

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:26 - If, when I saw the sun shining, and the moon moving on its bright way,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:27 - A secret feeling of worship came into my heart, and my hand gave kisses from my mouth;

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:28 - That would have been another sin to be rewarded with punishment by the judges; for I would have been false to God on high.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:29 - If I was glad at the trouble of my hater, and gave cries of joy when evil overtook him;

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:30 - (For I did not let my mouth give way to sin, in putting a curse on his life;)

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:31 - If the men of my tent did not say, Who has not had full measure of his meat?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:32 - The traveller did not take his night's rest in the street, and my doors were open to anyone on a journey;

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:33 - If I kept my evil doings covered, and my sin in the secret of my breast,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:34 - For fear of the great body of people, or for fear that families might make sport of me, so that I kept quiet, and did not go out of my door;

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:35

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:35 - If only God would give ear to me, and the Ruler of all would give me an answer! or if what he has against me had been put in writing!

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:36

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:36 - Truly I would take up the book in my hands; it would be to me as a crown;

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:37

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:37 - I would make clear the number of my steps, I would put it before him like a prince! The words of Job are ended.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:38

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:38 - If my land has made an outcry against me, or the ploughed earth has been in sorrow;

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:39

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:39 - If I have taken its produce without payment, causing the death of its owners;

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:40

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:40 - Then in place of grain let thorns come up, and in place of barley evil-smelling plants.
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The Bible in Basic English was translated by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke (1874-1968)
This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

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