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Job 30

## The Book of Job

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| # Chapter 31
#### 1 | I made a covenant with mine eyes; How then should I look upon a virgin?
#### 2 | For what is the portion from God above, And the heritage from the Almighty on high?
#### 3 | Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, And disaster to the workers of iniquity?
#### 4 | Doth not he see my ways, And number all my steps?
#### 5 | If I have walked with falsehood, And my foot hath hasted to deceit
#### 6 | (Let me be weighed in an even balance, That God may know mine integrity);
#### 7 | If my step hath turned out of the way, And my heart walked after mine eyes, And if any spot hath cleaved to my hands:
#### 8 | Then let me sow, and let another eat; Yea, let the produce of my field be rooted out.
#### 9 | If my heart hath been enticed unto a woman, And I have laid wait at my neighbor's door;
#### 10 | Then let my wife grind unto another, And let others bow down upon her.
#### 11 | For that were a heinous crime; Yea, it were an iniquity to be punished by the judges:
#### 12 | For it is a fire that consumeth unto Destruction, And would root out all mine increase.
#### 13 | If I have despised the cause of my man-servant or of my maid-servant, When they contended with me;
#### 14 | What then shall I do when God riseth up? And when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?
#### 15 | Did not he that made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb?
#### 16 | If I have withheld the poor from [their] desire, Or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
#### 17 | Or have eaten my morsel alone, And the fatherless hath not eaten thereof
#### 18 | (Nay, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, And her have I guided from my mother's womb);
#### 19 | If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, Or that the needy had no covering;
#### 20 | If his loins have not blessed me, And if he hath not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
#### 21 | If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, Because I saw my help in the gate:
#### 22 | Then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade, And mine arm be broken from the bone.
#### 23 | For calamity from God is a terror to me, And by reason of his majesty I can do nothing.
#### 24 | If I have made gold my hope, And have said to the fine gold, [Thou art] my confidence;
#### 25 | If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, And because my hand had gotten much;
#### 26 | If I have beheld the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness,
#### 27 | And my heart hath been secretly enticed, And my mouth hath kissed my hand:
#### 28 | This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judges; For I should have denied the God that is above.
#### 29 | If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, Or lifted up myself when evil found him;
#### 30 | (Yea, I have not suffered by mouth to sin By asking his life with a curse);
#### 31 | If the men of my tent have not said, Who can find one that hath not been filled with his meat?
#### 32 | (The sojourner hath not lodged in the street; But I have opened my doors to the traveller);
#### 33 | If like Adam I have covered my transgressions, By hiding mine iniquity in my bosom,
#### 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-
#### 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!
#### 36 | Surely I would carry it upon my shoulder; I would bind it unto me as a crown:
#### 37 | I would declare unto him the number of my steps; As a prince would I go near unto him.
#### 38 | If my land crieth out against me, And the furrows thereof weep together;
#### 39 | If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, Or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:
#### 40 | Let thistles grow instead of wheat, And cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.

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