Job 31 :: Webster's Bible (WEB)

Job Asserts His Integrity

Job 31:1

Job 31:1I Made a covenant with my eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?

Job 31:2

Job 31:2For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?

Job 31:3

Job 31:3Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?

Job 31:4

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

Job 31:5

Job 31:5If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;

Job 31:6

Job 31:6Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity.

Job 31:7

Job 31:7If my step hath turned out of the way, and my heart walked after my eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to my hands;

Job 31:8

Job 31:8Then let me sow, and let another eat; yes, let my offspring be rooted out.

Job 31:9

Job 31:9If my heart hath been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbor's door;

Job 31:10

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

Job 31:11

Job 31:11For this is a hainous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.

Job 31:12

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

Job 31:13

Job 31:13If I 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 riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall 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 have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

Job 31:17

Job 31:17Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten of it;

Job 31:18

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

Job 31:19

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

Job 31:20

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

Job 31:21

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

Job 31:22

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

Job 31:23

Job 31:23For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.

Job 31:24

Job 31:24If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;

Job 31:25

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

Job 31:26

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

Job 31:27

Job 31:27And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand:

Job 31:28

Job 31:28This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.

Job 31:29

Job 31:29If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or have lifted up myself when evil found him:

Job 31:30

Job 31:30Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.

Job 31:31

Job 31:31If the men of my tabernacle have not said, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.

Job 31:32

Job 31:32The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveler.

Job 31:33

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

Job 31:34

Job 31:34Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door?

Job 31:35

Job 31:35Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that my adversary had written a book.

Job 31:36

Job 31:36Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.

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 crieth against me, or its furrows likewise complain;

Job 31:39

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

Job 31:40

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

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Job 31 :: Webster's Bible (WEB)

Job Asserts His Integrity

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