Job 31 :: Hebrew Names Version (HNV)

Job Asserts His Integrity

Job 31:1

Job 31:1"I made a covenant with my eyes, How then should I look lustfully at a young woman?

Job 31:2

Job 31:2For what is the portion from God above, And the heritage from Shaddai on high?

Job 31:3

Job 31:3Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, And disaster to the workers of iniquity?

Job 31:4

Job 31:4Doesn't he see my ways, And number all my steps?

Job 31:5

Job 31:5"If I have walked with falsehood, And my foot has hurried to deceit

Job 31:6

Job 31:6(Let me be weighed in an even balance, That God may know my integrity);

Job 31:7

Job 31:7If my step has turned out of the way, If my heart walked after my eyes, If any defilement has stuck to my hands,

Job 31:8

Job 31:8Then let me sow, and let another eat; Yes, let the produce of my field be rooted out.

Job 31:9

Job 31:9"If my heart has been enticed to a woman, And I have laid wait at my neighbor's door;

Job 31:10

Job 31:10Then let my wife grind for another, And let others sleep with her.

Job 31:11

Job 31:11For that would be a heinous crime; Yes, it would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges:

Job 31:12

Job 31:12For it is a fire that consumes to destruction, And would root out all my increase.

Job 31:13

Job 31:13"If I have despised the cause of my man-servant Or of my maid-servant, When they contended with me;

Job 31:14

Job 31:14What then shall I do when God rises up? When he visits, what shall I answer him?

Job 31:15

Job 31:15Didn't he who made me in the womb make him? Didn't one fashion us in the womb?

Job 31:16

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

Job 31:17

Job 31:17Or have eaten my morsel alone, And the fatherless has not eaten of it

Job 31:18

Job 31:18(No, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, Her have I guided from my mother's womb);

Job 31:19

Job 31:19If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, Or that the needy had no covering;

Job 31:20

Job 31:20If his heart hasn't blessed me, If he hasn't been warmed with my sheep's fleece;

Job 31:21

Job 31:21If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, Because I saw my help in the gate:

Job 31:22

Job 31:22Then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade, And my arm be broken from the bone.

Job 31:23

Job 31:23For calamity from God is a terror to me, By reason of his majesty I can do nothing.

Job 31:24

Job 31:24"If I have made gold my hope, And have said to the fine gold, 'You are my confidence;'

Job 31:25

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

Job 31:26

Job 31:26If I have seen the sun when it shined, Or the moon moving in splendor,

Job 31:27

Job 31:27And my heart has been secretly enticed, My hand threw a kiss from my mouth:

Job 31:28

Job 31:28This also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges; For I should have denied the God who is above.

Job 31:29

Job 31:29"If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, Or lifted up myself when evil found him;

Job 31:30

Job 31:30(Yes, I have not allowed my mouth to sin By asking his life with a curse);

Job 31:31

Job 31:31If the men of my tent have not said, 'Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?'

Job 31:32

Job 31:32(The foreigner has not lodged in the street; But I have opened my doors to the traveler);

Job 31:33

Job 31:33If like Adam I have covered my transgressions, By hiding my iniquity in my heart,

Job 31:34

Job 31:34Because I feared the great multitude, And the contempt of families terrified me, So that I kept silence, and didn't go out of the door--

Job 31:35

Job 31:35Oh that I had one to hear me! (Behold, here is my signature, let Shaddai answer me); Let the accuser write my indictment!

Job 31:36

Job 31:36Surely I would carry it on my shoulder; And I would bind it to me as a crown.

Job 31:37

Job 31:37I would declare to him the number of my steps. As a prince would I go near to him.

Job 31:38

Job 31:38If my land cries out against me, And the furrows of it weep together;

Job 31:39

Job 31:39If I have eaten the fruits of it without money, Or have caused the owners of it to lose their life:

Job 31:40

Job 31:40Let briars grow instead of wheat, And stinkweed instead of barley." The words of Iyov are ended.

The Hebrew Names Version is based off the World English Bible, an update of the American Standard Version of 1901. This version of the Bible is in the public domain.

Job 31 :: Hebrew Names Version (HNV)

Job Asserts His Integrity

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