I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?Job 31:1

For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?Job 31:2

Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?Job 31:3

Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?Job 31:4

If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;Job 31:5

Let me be weighed in an even balance that God may know mine integrity.Job 31:6

If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;Job 31:7

Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.Job 31:8

If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour’s door;Job 31:9

Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.Job 31:10

For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.Job 31:11

For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.Job 31:12

If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;Job 31:13

What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?Job 31:14

Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?Job 31:15

If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;Job 31:16

Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;Job 31:17

(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother’s womb;)Job 31:18

If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;Job 31:19

If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;Job 31:20

If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:Job 31:21

Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.Job 31:22

For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.Job 31:23

If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;Job 31:24

If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much;Job 31:25

If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;Job 31:26

And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand:Job 31:27

This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.Job 31:28

If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:Job 31:29

Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.Job 31:30

If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.Job 31:31

The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller.Job 31:32

If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:Job 31:33

Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door?Job 31:34

Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.Job 31:35

Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.Job 31:36

I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.Job 31:37

If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;Job 31:38

If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:Job 31:39

Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.Job 31:40