Job 31:1-15 ▼

1 “I made a covenant with my eyes; how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?

2 For what is the portion from God above, and the heritage from the Almighty on high?

3 Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?

4 Doesn’t he see my ways, and count all my steps?

5 “If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot has hurried to deceit

6 (let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity);

7 if my step has turned out of the way, if my heart walked after my eyes, if any defilement has stuck to my hands,

8 then let me sow, and let another eat. Yes, let the produce of my field be rooted out.

9 “If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbor’s door,

10 then let my wife grind for another, and let others sleep with her.

11 For that would be a heinous crime. Yes, it would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges,

12 for it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase.

13 “If I have despised the cause of my male servant or of my female servant, when they contended with me,

14 what then will I do when God rises up? When he visits, what will I answer him?

15 Didn’t he who made me in the womb make him? Didn’t one fashion us in the womb?