Job-31

(New International Version)

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  • 1 “I made a covenant with my eyes not to look lustfully at a young woman.
  • 2 For what is our lot from God above, our heritage from the Almighty on high?
  • 3 Is it not ruin for the wicked, disaster for those who do wrong?
  • 4 Does he not see my ways and count my every step?
  • 5 “If I have walked with falsehood or my foot has hurried after deceit—
  • 6 let God weigh me in honest scales and he will know that I am blameless—
  • 7 if my steps have turned from the path, if my heart has been led by my eyes, or if my hands have been defiled,
  • 8 then may others eat what I have sown, and may my crops be uprooted.
  • 9 “If my heart has been enticed by a woman, or if I have lurked at my neighbor’s door,
  • 10 then may my wife grind another man’s grain, and may other men sleep with her.
  • 11 For that would have been wicked, a sin to be judged.
  • 12 It is a fire that burns to Destruction 31:12 Hebrew Abaddon; it would have uprooted my harvest.
  • 13 “If I have denied justice to any of my servants, whether male or female, when they had a grievance against me,
  • 14 what will I do when God confronts me? What will I answer when called to account?
  • 15 Did not he who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same one form us both within our mothers?
  • 16 “If I have denied the desires of the poor or let the eyes of the widow grow weary,
  • 17 if I have kept my bread to myself, not sharing it with the fatherless—
  • 18 but from my youth I reared them as a father would, and from my birth I guided the widow—
  • 19 if I have seen anyone perishing for lack of clothing, or the needy without garments,
  • 20 and their hearts did not bless me for warming them with the fleece from my sheep,
  • 21 if I have raised my hand against the fatherless, knowing that I had influence in court,
  • 22 then let my arm fall from the shoulder, let it be broken off at the joint.
  • 23 For I dreaded destruction from God, and for fear of his splendor I could not do such things.
  • 24 “If I have put my trust in gold or said to pure gold, ‘You are my security,’
  • 25 if I have rejoiced over my great wealth, the fortune my hands had gained,
  • 26 if I have regarded the sun in its radiance or the moon moving in splendor,
  • 27 so that my heart was secretly enticed and my hand offered them a kiss of homage,
  • 28 then these also would be sins to be judged, for I would have been unfaithful to God on high.
  • 29 “If I have rejoiced at my enemy’s misfortune or gloated over the trouble that came to him—
  • 30 I have not allowed my mouth to sin by invoking a curse against their life—
  • 31 if those of my household have never said, ‘Who has not been filled with Job’s meat?’—
  • 32 but no stranger had to spend the night in the street, for my door was always open to the traveler—
  • 33 if I have concealed my sin as people do, 31:33 Or as Adam did by hiding my guilt in my heart
  • 34 because I so feared the crowd and so dreaded the contempt of the clans that I kept silent and would not go outside—
  • 35 (“Oh, that I had someone to hear me! I sign now my defense—let the Almighty answer me; let my accuser put his indictment in writing.
  • 36 Surely I would wear it on my shoulder, I would put it on like a crown.
  • 37 I would give him an account of my every step; I would present it to him as to a ruler.)—
  • 38 “if my land cries out against me and all its furrows are wet with tears,
  • 39 if I have devoured its yield without payment or broken the spirit of its tenants,
  • 40 then let briers come up instead of wheat and stinkweed instead of barley.” The words of Job are ended.
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