Job 31

1I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid? 2For what portion of Elohim from above? and inheritance of the Almighty from on high? 3not destruction to the wicked? and a strange to the workers of iniquity? 4does not he see my ways, and count all my steps? 5If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot has hasted to deceit; 6Let me be weighed in an even balance, that Elohim may know mine integrity. 7If my step has turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot has cleaved to mine hands; 8let me sow, and let another eat; yes, let my offspring be rooted out. 9If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or I have laid wait at my neighbour's door; 10let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her. 11For this an heinous crime; yes, it an iniquity the judges. 12For it a fire consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase. 13If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me; 14What then shall I do when Elohim riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him? 15Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb? 16If I have withheld the poor from desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail; 17Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless has not eaten thereof; 18(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;) 19If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering; 20If his loins have not blessed me, and he were warmed with the fleece of my sheep; 21If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate: 22let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone. 23For destruction Elohim a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure. 24If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, my confidence; 25If I rejoiced because my wealth great, and because mine hand had gotten much; 26If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking brightness; 27And my heart has been secretly enticed, or my mouth has kissed my hand: 28This also an iniquity the judge: for I should have denied the Elohim above. 29If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him: 30Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul. 31If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied. 32The stranger did not lodge in the street: I opened my doors to the traveller. 33If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom: 34Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, went not out of the door? 35Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire the Almighty would answer me, and mine adversary had written a book. 36Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, bind it a crown to me. 37I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him. 38If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain; 39If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life: 40Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.