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[1]A covenant I made for mine eyes, And what -- do I attend to a virgin? |
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[2]And what [is] the portion of God from above? And the inheritance of the Mighty from the heights? |
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[3]Is not calamity to the perverse? And strangeness to workers of iniquity? |
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[4]Doth not He see my ways, And all my steps number? |
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[5]If I have walked with vanity, And my foot doth hasten to deceit, |
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[6]He doth weigh me in righteous balances, And God doth know my integrity. |
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[7]If my step doth turn aside from the way, And after mine eyes hath my heart gone, And to my hands cleaved hath blemish, |
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[8]Let me sow -- and another eat, And my products let be rooted out. |
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[9]If my heart hath been enticed by woman, And by the opening of my neighbour I laid wait, |
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[10]Grind to another let my wife, And over her let others bend. |
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[11]For it [is] a wicked thing, and a judicial iniquity; |
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[12]For a fire it [is], to destruction it consumeth, And among all mine increase doth take root, |
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[13]If I despise the cause of my man-servant, And of my handmaid, In their contending with me, |
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[14]Then what do I do when God ariseth? And when He doth inspect, What do I answer Him? |
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[15]Did not He that made me in the womb make him? Yea, prepare us in the womb doth One. |
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[16]If I withhold from pleasure the poor, And the eyes of the widow do consume, |
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[17]And I do eat my morsel by myself, And the orphan hath not eat of it, |
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[18](But from my youth He grew up with me as [with] a father, And from the belly of my mother I am led.) |
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[19]If I see [any] perishing without clothing, And there is no covering to the needy, |
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[20]If his loins have not blessed me, And from the fleece of my sheep He doth not warm himself, |
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[21]If I have waved at the fatherless my hand, When I see in [him] the gate of my court, |
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[22]My shoulder from its blade let fall, And mine arm from the bone be broken. |
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[23]For a dread unto me [is] calamity [from] God, And because of His excellency I am not able. |
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[24]If I have made gold my confidence, And to the pure gold have said, `My trust,' |
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[25]If I rejoice because great [is] my wealth, And because abundance hath my hand found, |
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[26]If I see the light when it shineth, And the precious moon walking, |
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[27]And my heart is enticed in secret, And my hand doth kiss my mouth, |
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[28]It also [is] a judicial iniquity, For I had lied to God above. |
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[29]If I rejoice at the ruin of my hater, And stirred up myself when evil found him, |
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[30]Yea, I have not suffered my mouth to sin, To ask with an oath his life. |
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[31]If not -- say ye, O men of my tent, `O that we had of his flesh, we are not satisfied.' |
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[32]In the street doth not lodge a stranger, My doors to the traveller I open. |
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[33]If I have covered as Adam my transgressions, To hide in my bosom mine iniquity, |
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[34]Because I fear a great multitude, And the contempt of families doth affright me, Then I am silent, I go not out of the opening. |
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[35]Who giveth to me a hearing? lo, my mark. The Mighty One doth answer me, And a bill hath mine adversary written. |
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[36]If not -- on my shoulder I take it up, I bind it a crown on myself. |
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[37]The number of my steps I tell Him, As a leader I approach Him. |
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[38]If against me my land doth cry out, And together its furrows weep, |
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[39]If its strength I consumed without money, And the life of its possessors, I have caused to breathe out, |
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[40]Instead of wheat let a thorn go forth, And instead of barley a useless weed! The words of Job are finished. |