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| [1]I made a covenant with mine eyes: why then should I think on a maid? |
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| [2]For what portion should I have of God from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high? |
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| [3]Is not destruction to the wicked and strange punishment to the workers of iniquity? |
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| [4]Doth not he behold my ways and tell all my steps? |
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| [5]If I have walked in vanity, or if my foot hath made haste to deceit, |
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| [6]Let God weigh me in the just balance, and he shall know mine uprightness. |
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| [7]If my step hath turned out of the way, or mine heart hath walked after mine eye, or if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands, |
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| [8]Let me sow, and let another eat: yea, let my plants be rooted out. |
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| [9]If mine heart hath been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at the door of my neighbor, |
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| [10]Let my wife grind unto another man, and let other men bow down upon her: |
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| [11]For this is a wickedness, and iniquity to be condemned: |
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| [12]Yea, this is a fire that shall devour to destruction, and which shall root out all mine increase, |
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| [13]If I did contemn the judgment of my servant, and of my maid, when they did contend with me, |
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| [14]What then shall I do when God standeth up? And when he shall visit me, what shall I answer? |
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| [15]He that hath made me in the womb, hath he not made him? Hath not he alone fashioned us in the womb? |
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| [16]If I restrained the poor of their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail, |
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| [17]Or have eaten my morsels alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof, |
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| [18](For from my youth he hath grown up with me as with a father, and from my mother's womb I have been a guide unto her) |
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| [19]If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering, |
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| [20]If his loins have not blessed me, because he was warmed with the fleece of my sheep, |
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| [21]If I have lift up mine hand against the fatherless, when I saw that I might help him in the gate, |
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| [22]Let mine arm fall from my shoulder, and mine arm be broken from the bone. |
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| [23]For God's punishment was fearful unto me, and I could not be delivered from his highness. |
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| [24]If I made gold mine hope, or have said to the wedge of gold, Thou art my confidence, |
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| [25]If I rejoiced because my substance was great, or because mine hand had gotten much, |
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| [26]If I did behold the sun, when it shined, or the moon, walking in her brightness, |
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| [27]If mine heart did flatter me in secret, or if my mouth did kiss mine hand, |
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| [28](This also had been an iniquity to be condemned: for I had denied the God above) |
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| [29]If I rejoiced at his destruction that hated me, or was moved to joy when evil came upon him, |
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| [30]Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin, by wishing a curse unto his soul. |
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| [31]Did not the men of my tabernacle say, Who shall give us of his flesh? We cannot be satisfied. |
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| [32]The stranger did not lodge in the street, but I opened my doors unto him, that went by the way. |
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| [33]If I have hid my sin, as Adam, concealing mine iniquity in my bosom, |
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| [34]Though I could have made afraid a great multitude, yet the most contemptible of the families did fear me: so I kept silence, and went not out of the door. |
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| [35]Oh that I had some to hear me! behold my sign that the Almighty will witness for me: though mine adversary should write a book against me, |
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| [36]Would not I take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown unto me? |
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| [37]I will tell him the number of my goings, and go unto him as to a prince. |
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| [38]If my land cry against me, or the furrows thereof complain together, |
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| [39]If I have eaten the fruits thereof without silver: or if I have grieved the souls of the masters thereof, |
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| [40]Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle in the stead of barley. THE WORDS OF JOB ARE ENDED. |
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