Job 31:1
“I have made a covenant with my eyes. How then could I gaze with desire at a virgin?
Job 31:2
For what is the allotment of God from above, or the heritage from the Almighty on high?
Job 31:3
Does not disaster come to the unjust and calamity to the workers of iniquity?
Job 31:4
Does He not see my ways and count my every step?
Job 31:5
If I have walked in falsehood or my foot has rushed to deceit,
Job 31:6
let God weigh me with honest scales, that He may know my integrity.
Job 31:7
If my steps have turned from the path, if my heart has followed my eyes, or if impurity has stuck to my hands,
Job 31:8
then may another eat what I have sown, and may my crops be uprooted.
Job 31:9
If my heart has been enticed by my neighbor’s wife, or I have lurked at his door,
Job 31:10
then may my own wife grind grain for another, and may other men sleep with her.
Job 31:11
For that would be a heinous crime, an iniquity to be judged.
Job 31:12
For it is a fire that burns down to Abaddon; it would root out my entire harvest.
Job 31:13
If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or maidservant when they made a complaint against me,
Job 31:14
what will I do when God rises to judge? How will I answer when called to account?
Job 31:15
Did not He who made me in the womb also make them? Did not the same One form us in the womb?
Job 31:16
If I have denied the desires of the poor or allowed the widow’s eyes to fail,
Job 31:17
if I have eaten my morsel alone, not sharing it with the fatherless—
Job 31:18
though from my youth I reared him as would a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow—
Job 31:19
if I have seen one perish for lack of clothing, or a needy man without a cloak,
Job 31:20
if his heart has not blessed me for warming him with the fleece of my sheep,
Job 31:21
if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless because I saw that I had support in the gate,
Job 31:22
then may my arm fall from my shoulder and be torn from its socket.
Job 31:23
For calamity from God terrifies me, and His splendor I cannot overpower.
Job 31:24
If I have put my trust in gold or called pure gold my security,
Job 31:25
if I have rejoiced in my great wealth because my hand had gained so much,
Job 31:26
if I have beheld the sun in its radiance or the moon moving in splendor,
Job 31:27
so that my heart was secretly enticed and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth,
Job 31:28
this would also be an iniquity to be judged, for I would have denied God on high.
Job 31:29
If I have rejoiced in my enemy’s ruin, or exulted when evil befell him—
Job 31:30
I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking for his life with a curse—
Job 31:31
if the men of my house have not said, ‘Who is there who has not had his fill?’—
Job 31:32
but no stranger had to lodge on the street, for my door has been open to the traveler—
Job 31:33
if I have covered my transgressions like Adam by hiding my guilt in my heart,
Job 31:34
because I greatly feared the crowds and the contempt of the clans terrified me, so that I kept silent and would not go outside—
Job 31:35
(Oh, that I had one to hear me! Here is my signature. Let the Almighty answer me; let my accuser compose an indictment.
Job 31:36
Surely I would carry it on my shoulder and wear it like a crown.
Job 31:37
I would give account of all my steps; I would approach Him like a prince.)—
Job 31:38
if my land cries out against me and its furrows weep together,
Job 31:39
if I have devoured its produce without payment or broken the spirit of its tenants,
Job 31:40
then let briers grow instead of wheat and stinkweed instead of barley.” Thus conclude the words of Job.