Job 31

About Job Job wrestles with why the righteous suffer, through Job's losses, his friends' arguments and God's answer.

I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?SelectedJob 31:1Ask

For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?SelectedJob 31:2Ask

Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?SelectedJob 31:3Ask

Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?SelectedJob 31:4Ask

If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;SelectedJob 31:5Ask

Let me be weighed in an even balance that God may know mine integrity.SelectedJob 31:6Ask

If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;SelectedJob 31:7Ask

Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.SelectedJob 31:8Ask

If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour’s door;SelectedJob 31:9Ask

Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.SelectedJob 31:10Ask

For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.SelectedJob 31:11Ask

For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.SelectedJob 31:12Ask

If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;SelectedJob 31:13Ask

What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?SelectedJob 31:14Ask

Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?SelectedJob 31:15Ask

If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;SelectedJob 31:16Ask

Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;SelectedJob 31:17Ask

(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother’s womb;)SelectedJob 31:18Ask

If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;SelectedJob 31:19Ask

If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;SelectedJob 31:20Ask

If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:SelectedJob 31:21Ask

Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.SelectedJob 31:22Ask

For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.SelectedJob 31:23Ask

If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;SelectedJob 31:24Ask

If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much;SelectedJob 31:25Ask

If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;SelectedJob 31:26Ask

And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand:SelectedJob 31:27Ask

This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.SelectedJob 31:28Ask

If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:SelectedJob 31:29Ask

Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.SelectedJob 31:30Ask

If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.SelectedJob 31:31Ask

The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller.SelectedJob 31:32Ask

If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:SelectedJob 31:33Ask

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?SelectedJob 31:34Ask

Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.SelectedJob 31:35Ask

Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.SelectedJob 31:36Ask

I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.SelectedJob 31:37Ask

If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;SelectedJob 31:38Ask

If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:SelectedJob 31:39Ask

Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.SelectedJob 31:40Ask

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