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| [1]I made a covenant with mine eyes; how then should I look upon a maid? |
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| [2]For what would be the portion of God from above, and the heritage of the Almighty from on high? |
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| [3]Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity? |
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| [4]Doth not He see my ways, and count all my steps? |
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| [5]If I have walked with vanity, and my foot hath hasted to deceit— |
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| [6]Let me be weighed in a just balance, that God may know mine integrity— |
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| [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; |
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| [8]Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let the produce of my field be rooted out. |
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| [9]If my heart have been enticed unto a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbour's door; |
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| [10]Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her. |
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| [11]For that were a heinous crime; yea, it were an iniquity to be punished by the judges. |
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| [12]For it is a fire that consumeth unto destruction, and would root out all mine increase. |
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| [13]If I did despise the cause of my man-servant, or of my maid-servant, when they contended with me— |
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| [14]What then shall I do when God riseth up? And when He remembereth, what shall I answer Him? |
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| [15]Did not He that made me in the womb make him? And did not One fashion us in the womb? |
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| [16]If I have withheld aught that the poor desired, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail; |
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| [17]Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof— |
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| [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. |
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| [19]If I have seen any wanderer in want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering; |
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| [20]If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep; |
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| [21]If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate; |
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| [22]Then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone. |
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| [23]For calamity from God was a terror to me, and by reason of His majesty I could do nothing. |
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| [24]If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold: 'Thou art my confidence'; |
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| [25]If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much; |
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| [26]If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness; |
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| [27]And my heart hath been secretly enticed, and my mouth hath kissed my hand; |
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| [28]This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judges; for I should have lied to God that is above. |
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| [29]If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or exulted when evil found him— |
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| [30]Yea, I suffered not my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse. |
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| [31]If the men of my tent said not: 'Who can find one that hath not been satisfied with his meat?' |
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| [32]The stranger did not lodge in the street; my doors I opened to the roadside. |
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| [33]If after the manner of men I covered my transgressions, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom— |
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| [34]Because I feared the great multitude, and the most contemptible among families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and went not out of the door. |
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| [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! |
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| [36]Surely I would carry it upon my shoulder; I would bind it unto me as a crown. |
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| [37]I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him. |
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| [38]If my land cry out against me, and the furrows thereof weep together; |
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| [39]If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the tillers thereof to be disappointed— |
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| [40]Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and noisome weeds instead of barley. The words of Job are ended. |
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