| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | NET Bible |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1"I made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I entertain thoughts against a virgin? |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2What then would be one's lot from God above, one's heritage from the Almighty on high? |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Is it not misfortune for the unjust, and disaster for those who work iniquity? |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Does he not see my ways and count all my steps? |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5If I have walked in falsehood, and if my foot has hastened to deceit-- |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6let him weigh me with honest scales; then God will discover my integrity. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7If my footsteps have strayed from the way, if my heart has gone after my eyes, or if anything has defiled my hands, |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8then let me sow and let another eat, and let my crops be uprooted. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9If my heart has been enticed by a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbor's door, |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10then let my wife turn the millstone for another man, and may other men have sexual relations with her. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11For I would have committed a shameful act, an iniquity to be judged. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12For it is a fire that devours even to Destruction, and it would uproot all my harvest. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13"If I have disregarded the right of my male servants or my female servants when they disputed with me, |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14then what will I do when God confronts me in judgment; when he intervenes, how will I respond to him? |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Did not the one who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same one form us in the womb? |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16If I have refused to give the poor what they desired, or caused the eyes of the widow to fail, |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17If I ate my morsel of bread myself, and did not share any of it with orphans-- |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18but from my youth I raised the orphan like a father, and from my mother's womb I guided the widow! |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19If I have seen anyone about to perish for lack of clothing, or a poor man without a coat, |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20whose heart did not bless me as he warmed himself with the fleece of my sheep, |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21if I have raised my hand to vote against the orphan, when I saw my support in the court, |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22then let my arm fall from the shoulder, let my arm be broken off at the socket. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23For the calamity from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his majesty I was powerless. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24"If I have put my confidence in gold or said to pure gold, 'You are my security!' |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25if I have rejoiced because of the extent of my wealth, or because of the great wealth my hand had gained, |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26if I looked at the sun when it was shining, and the moon advancing as a precious thing, |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27so that my heart was secretly enticed, and my hand threw them a kiss from my mouth, |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28then this also would be iniquity to be judged, for I would have been false to God above. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29If I have rejoiced over the misfortune of my enemy or exulted because calamity found him-- |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30I have not even permitted my mouth to sin by asking for his life through a curse-- |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31if the members of my household have never said, 'If only there were someone who has not been satisfied from Job's meat!'-- |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32But no stranger had to spend the night outside, for I opened my doors to the traveler-- |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33if I have covered my transgressions as men do, by hiding iniquity in my heart, |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34because I was terrified of the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I remained silent and would not go outdoors-- |
| 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35"If only I had someone to hear me! Here is my signature--let the Almighty answer me! If only I had an indictment that my accuser had written. |
| 36[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 36Surely I would wear it proudly on my shoulder, I would bind it on me like a crown; |
| 37[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 37I would give him an accounting of my steps; like a prince I would approach him. |
| 38[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 38"If my land cried out against me and all its furrows wept together, |
| 39[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 39if I have eaten its produce without paying, or caused the death of its owners, |
| 40[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 40then let thorns sprout up in place of wheat, and in place of barley, weeds!" The words of Job are ended. |
|
