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31:1  I made a covenant with my eyes; why then should I look upon a maid?
31:2  For what reward would God give me from above and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?
31:3  Is there no destruction for the wicked? And banishment for the workers of iniquity?
31:4  Does he not see my ways and count all my steps?
31:5  If I have walked with falsehood or if my foot has hastened to deceit,
31:6  let me be weighed in a just balance, that God may know my integrity.
31:7  If my step has turned out of the way and my heart walked after my eyes and if any blot has cleaved to my hands,
31:8  then let me sow, and let another eat, and let my offspring be rooted out.
31:9  If my heart has been deceived regarding a woman, or if I have laid in wait at my neighbour’s door,
31:10  then let my wife grind for another, and let others bow down upon her.
31:11  For this is lewdness and iniquity that is proven.
31:12  For it is a fire that consumes unto hell and would root out all my increase.
31:13  If I had despised the right of my manslave or of my maidslave, when they contended with me;
31:14  what then would I do when God rises up? And when he visits, what would I answer him?
31:15  Did not he that made me in the belly also make him? And did not the same one fashion us in the womb?
31:16  If I have disturbed the desire of the poor or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
31:17  or have eaten my morsel alone and the fatherless has not eaten thereof;
31:18  (for from my youth the fatherless was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided the widow from my mother’s womb)
31:19  if I have seen any perish for want of clothing or any needy without a covering;
31:20  if his loins have not blessed me and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
31:21  if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, even when I saw that they would all help me in the gate;
31:22  then let my back fall from my shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from its joint.
31:23  For I feared destruction from God, against whose highness I could have no power.
31:24  If I have made gold my hope or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;
31:25  if I rejoiced because my wealth was being multiplied, and because my hand had gotten much;
31:26  if I beheld the sun when it shone or the moon walking in beauty;
31:27  and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my mouth kissed my hand;
31:28  this would also be a proven iniquity; for I should have denied the God that is sovereign.
31:29  If I rejoiced at the destruction of the one that hated me or lifted up myself when evil found him;
31:30  for I have never even suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse upon his soul;
31:31  when the servants of my tent said, Oh that we had of his flesh! We would never be satisfied.
31:32  The stranger did not lodge in the street, but I opened my doors to the traveller.
31:33  If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom;
31:34  if I feared a great multitude or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and did not go out of the door?
31:35  Oh that someone would hear me! Behold, my mark is, that the Almighty will testify for me, even though my adversary had written down the charges.
31:36  Surely I would take it upon my shoulder and bind it as a crown to me.
31:37  I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince I would go near unto him.
31:38  If my land cries against me and all its furrows likewise complain;
31:39  if I ate of its strength without money or have afflicted the soul of its owners;
31:40  let thistles grow up unto me instead of wheat and stinkweed instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.