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31:1  I MADE a covenant with mine eyes; how then should I look upon a maid?
31:2  For what is the portion of God from above, and the heritage of the Almighty from on high?
31:3  Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?
31:4  Doth not he see my ways, and number all my steps?
31:5  If I have walked with vanity, and my foot hath hasted to deceit;
31:6  (Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity;)
31:7  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:
31:8  Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let the produce of my field be rooted out.
31:9  If mine heart have been enticed unto a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbour's door:
31:10  Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.
31:11  For that were an heinous crime; yea, it were an iniquity to be punished by the judges:
31:12  For it is a fire that consumeth unto Destruction, and would root out all mine increase.
31:13  If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me:
31:14  What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall 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 have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
31:17  Or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;
31:18  (Nay, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, and I have been her guide from my mother's womb;)
31:19  If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or that the needy had no 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, 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 could do nothing.
31:24  If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;
31:25  If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much;
31:26  If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;
31:27  And my heart hath been secretly enticed, and my mouth hath kissed my hand:
31:28  This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judges: for I should have lied to God that is above.
31:29  If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him;
31:30  (Yea, I suffered not my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse;)
31:31  If the men of my tent said not, Who can find one that hath not been satisfied with his flesh?
31:32  The stranger did not lodge in the street; but I opened my doors to the traveller;
31:33  If like Adam I covered my transgressions, 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! (lo, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me;) and that I had the indictment which mine adversary hath written!
31:36  Surely I would carry it upon my shoulder; I would bind it unto me as a crown.
31:37  I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.
31:38  If my land cry out against me, and the furrows thereof weep together;
31:39  If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:
31:40  Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.