Job 31 :: Darby Translation (DBY)

Job Asserts His Integrity

Job 31:1

Job 31:1I made a covenant with mine eyes; and how should I fix my regard upon a maid?

Job 31:2

Job 31:2For what would have been my portion of God from above, and what the heritage of the Almighty from on high?

Job 31:3

Job 31:3Is not calamity for the unrighteous? and misfortune for the workers of iniquity?

Job 31:4

Job 31:4Doth not he see my ways, and number all my steps?

Job 31:5

Job 31:5If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot hath hasted to deceit,

Job 31:6

Job 31:6(Let me be weighed in an even balance, and God will take knowledge of my blamelessness;)

Job 31:7

Job 31:7If my step have turned out of the way, and my heart followed mine eyes, and if any blot cleaveth to my hands;

Job 31:8

Job 31:8Let me sow, and another eat; and let mine offspring be rooted out.

Job 31:9

Job 31:9If my heart have been enticed unto a woman, so that I laid wait at my neighbour's door,

Job 31:10

Job 31:10Let my wife grind for another, and let others bow down upon her.

Job 31:11

Job 31:11For this is an infamy; yea, it is an iniquity to be judged by the judges:

Job 31:12

Job 31:12For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.

Job 31:13

Job 31:13If I have despised the cause of my bondman or of my bondmaid, when they contended with me,

Job 31:14

Job 31:14What then should I do when God riseth up? and if he visited, what should I answer him?

Job 31:15

Job 31:15Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not One fashion us in the womb?

Job 31:16

Job 31:16If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

Job 31:17

Job 31:17Or have eaten my morsel alone, so that the fatherless ate not thereof,

Job 31:18

Job 31:18(For from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, and I have guided the widow from my mother's womb;)

Job 31:19

Job 31:19If I have seen any perishing for want of clothing, or any needy without covering;

Job 31:20

Job 31:20If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my lambs;

Job 31:21

Job 31:21If I have lifted up my hand against an orphan, because I saw my help in the gate:

Job 31:22

Job 31:22Then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone!

Job 31:23

Job 31:23For calamity from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his excellency I was powerless.

Job 31:24

Job 31:24If I have made gold my hope, or said to the fine gold, My confidence!

Job 31:25

Job 31:25If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;

Job 31:26

Job 31:26If I beheld the sun when it shone, or the moon walking in brightness,

Job 31:27

Job 31:27And my heart have been secretly enticed, so that my mouth kissed my hand:

Job 31:28

Job 31:28This also would be an iniquity for the judge, for I should have denied the God who is above.

Job 31:29

Job 31:29If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, and exulted when evil befell him;

Job 31:30

Job 31:30(Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse;)

Job 31:31

Job 31:31If the men of my tent said not, Who shall find one that hath not been satisfied with his meat? --

Job 31:32

Job 31:32The stranger did not lodge without; I opened my doors to the pathway.

Job 31:33

Job 31:33If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom,

Job 31:34

Job 31:34Because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and went not out of the door, ...

Job 31:35

Job 31:35Oh that I had one to hear me! Behold my signature: let the Almighty answer me! And let mine opponent write an accusation!

Job 31:36

Job 31:36Would I not take it upon my shoulder? I would bind it on to me as a crown;

Job 31:37

Job 31:37I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I come near to him.

Job 31:38

Job 31:38If my land cry out against me, and its furrows weep together;

Job 31:39

Job 31:39If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, and have tormented to death the souls of its owners:

Job 31:40

Job 31:40Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and tares instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.

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Job 31 :: Darby Translation (DBY)

Job Asserts His Integrity

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