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[1]I have made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I look intently upon a virgin?
[2]For what is the portion from God above, and the inheritance of the Almighty from on high?
[3]Is it not destruction for the wicked, and calamity for the workers of iniquity?
[4]Does He not see my ways, and count all my steps?
[5]If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot has hastened to deceit,
[6]let me be weighed on just scales, that God may know my integrity.
[7]If my step has turned aside from the way, or my heart walked after my eyes, or if any blemish has clung to my hands,
[8]then let me sow, and another eat; yea, let my harvest be rooted out.
[9]If my heart has been enticed by a woman, or if I have lurked at my neighbor's door,
[10]then let my wife grind for another, and let others bow down over her.
[11]For that would be wickedness; yea, it would be perversity deserving of judgment.
[12]For that would be a fire that devours to Abaddon, and would root out all my increase.
[13]If I despised the cause of my male or female servant when they have a dispute with me,
[14]what then shall I do when the Mighty God rises up? When He reviews my case, what shall I answer Him?
[15]Did not He who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same One fashion us in the womb?
[16]If I have withheld from the poor their desire, or caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
[17]or eaten my morsel by myself, and the fatherless has not eaten of it
[18](when from my youth, as a father I have raised him, and from my mother's womb I guided her);
[19]if I have seen anyone perish for lack of clothing, or any poor man without covering;
[20]if his heart has not blessed me, and if he was not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
[21]if I have waved my hand against the fatherless, when I was looking after my help in the gate;
[22]then let my shoulder fall from my back, and let my arm be broken from the joint.
[23]For calamity from the Mighty God is a terror to me, and because of His majesty I could not do such things.
[24]If I have made gold my hope, or said to fine gold, you are my confidence;
[25]if I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had acquired much;
[26]if I have observed the sun when it shines, or the moon moving in splendor,
[27]so that my heart has been secretly enticed, and my mouth has kissed my hand;
[28]this also would be a perversity deserving of judgment, for I would have denied the Mighty God above.
[29]If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or been excited when evil found him
[30](indeed I have not allowed my mouth to sin, to request a curse upon his soul);
[31]if the men of my tent have not said, who is there that is not satisfied with his flesh?
[32](no sojourner had to pass the night in the street, for I have opened my doors to the traveler);
[33]if I have covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom,
[34]then let me fear the great multitude, and let the contempt of families terrify me, and I will keep silent and not go out of the door.
[35]Oh, that I had one to hear me! Behold, my desire is that the Almighty would answer me, that the man complaining had written an indictment!
[36]Surely I would carry it on my shoulder, and bind it on me like a crown;
[37]I would declare to Him the number of my steps; like a prince I would approach Him.
[38]If my land cries out against me, or its furrows weep together;
[39]if I have eaten its produce without money, or caused its owners to expire their souls;
[40]then let thistles come forth instead of wheat, and weeds instead of barley. The words of Job are finished.
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