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31:1  I made a covenant with mine eyes; and how should I fix my regard upon a maid?
31:2  For what would have been my portion of +God from above, and what the heritage of the Almighty from on high?
31:3  Is not calamity for the unrighteous? and misfortune for the workers of iniquity?
31:4  Doth not he see my ways, and number all my steps?
31:5  If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot hath hasted to deceit,
31:6  (Let me be weighed in an even balance, and +God will take knowledge of my blamelessness;)
31:7  If my step have turned out of the way, and my heart followed mine eyes, and if any blot cleaveth to my hands;
31:8  Let me sow, and another eat; and let mine offspring be rooted out.
31:9  If my heart have been enticed unto a woman, so that I laid wait at my neighbour's door,
31:10  Let my wife grind for another, and let others bow down upon her.
31:11  For this is an infamy; yea, it is an iniquity to be judged by the judges:
31:12  For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.
31:13  If I have despised the cause of my bondman or of my bondmaid, when they contended with me,
31:14  What then should I do when �God riseth up? and if he visited, what should I answer him?
31:15  Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not One fashion us in the womb?
31:16  If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
31:17  Or have eaten my morsel alone, so that the fatherless ate not thereof,
31:18  (For from my youth he grew 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 perishing for want of clothing, or any needy without covering;
31:20  If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my lambs;
31:21  If I have lifted up my hand against an orphan, because I saw my help in the gate:
31:22  Then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone!
31:23  For calamity from �God was a terror to me, and by reason of his excellency I was powerless.
31:24  If I have made gold my hope, or said to the fine gold, My confidence!
31:25  If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;
31:26  If I beheld the sun when it shone, or the moon walking in brightness,
31:27  And my heart have been secretly enticed, so that my mouth kissed my hand:
31:28  This also would be an iniquity for the judge, for I should have denied the �God who is above.
31:29  If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, and exulted when evil befell him;
31:30  (Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse;)
31:31  If the men of my tent said not, Who shall find one that hath not been satisfied with his meat? --
31:32  The stranger did not lodge without; I opened my doors to the pathway.
31:33  If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom,
31:34  Because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and went not out of the door, ...
31:35  Oh that I had one to hear me! Behold my signature: let the Almighty answer me! And let mine opponent write an accusation!
31:36  Would I not take it upon my shoulder? I would bind it on to me as a crown;
31:37  I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I come near to him.
31:38  If my land cry out against me, and its furrows weep together;
31:39  If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, and have tormented to death the souls of its owners:
31:40  Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and tares instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.