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