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1 “ I have made A covenant with my eyes; and how could I gaze upon a virgin? 2 For what would be the portion of God from above, and the inheritance of Shaddai in the heights? 3 Is not disaster for the perverse one and calamity for the workers of iniquity? 4 Does He not see my ways, and count all my steps? 5 If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot has hurried toward deceit, 6 let Him weigh me in the scales of justice, and let God know my integrity. 7 If my step has turned aside from the way, and my heart has walked, following my eyes, and on my palms has stuck a spot, 8 then let me sow, and another may eat, and may my crops be uprooted! 9 If my heart has been enticed over a woman, or I have lain in wait at the door of my neighbor, 10 then let my wife grind for another, and others bend down over her. 11 For it is wickedness, and it is to be judged an iniquity. 12 For it is a fire that devours unto Abaddon, and it would uproot among all my produce. 13 If I have rejected the justice of my manservant or my maidservant, in their dispute with me, 14 then what shall I do when God arises? And when He inspects, how shall I answer him? 15 Did not the One making me in the belly make them, and that One prepare us in the womb? 16 If I have withheld the poor from pleasure and made to fail the eyes of the widow, 17 and have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless could not eat from it— 18 indeed from my youth I brought him up as a father, and from the womb of my mother I guided her— 19 if I have seen one perishing from lack of clothing, or there being no covering for the needy, 20 if his loins have not blessed me for warming him by the fleece of my sheep, Job 31:1-20, Berean Literal Bible. Public domain.
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