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| [1]I Made a covenant with my eyes; why then should I think upon a maid? |
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| [2]For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high? |
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| [3]Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment 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, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit; |
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| [6]Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity. |
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| [7]If my step hath turned out of the way, and my heart walked after my eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to my hands; |
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| [8]Then let me sow, and let another eat; yes, let my offspring be rooted out. |
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| [9]If my heart hath been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbor's door; |
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| [10]Then let my wife grind to another, and let others bow down upon her. |
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| [11]For this is a hainous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges. |
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| [12]For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all my increase. |
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| [13]If I despised 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 visiteth, 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 the poor from their desire, 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 of it; |
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| [18](For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;) |
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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, and if he hath not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep; |
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| [21]If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate: |
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| [22]Then let my arm fall from my shoulder-blade, and my arm be broken from the bone. |
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| [23]For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure. |
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| [24]If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence; |
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| [25]If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gained much; |
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| [26]If I have beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness; |
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| [27]And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand: |
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| [28]This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above. |
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| [29]If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or have lifted up myself when evil found him: |
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| [30]Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul. |
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| [31]If the men of my tabernacle have not said, Oh that we had 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 to the traveler. |
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| [33]If I have covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom: |
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| [34]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? |
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| [35]Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that my adversary had written a book. |
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| [36]Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me. |
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| [37]I would declare to him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near to him. |
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| [38]If my land crieth against me, or its furrows likewise complain; |
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| [39]If I have eaten the fruits of it without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life: |
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| [40]Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended. |
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