Job 31:1-20 ▼

1 I MADE a covenant with mine eyes; how then should I look upon a maid?

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

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

4 Doth not he see my ways, and number all my steps?

5 If I have walked with vanity, and my foot hath hasted to deceit;

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

7 If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any spot hath cleaved to mine hands:

8 Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let the produce of my field be rooted out.

9 If mine heart have been enticed unto a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbour's door:

10 Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.

11 For that were an heinous crime; yea, it were an iniquity to be punished by the judges:

12 For it is a fire that consumeth unto Destruction, and would root out all mine increase.

13 If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me:

14 What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?

15 Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?

16 If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

17 Or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;

18 (Nay, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, and I have been her guide from my mother's womb;)

19 If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;

20 If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;