I<\/span> made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?<\/span><\/p>\n 2<\/sup>For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?<\/span> <\/p>\n 3<\/sup>Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?<\/span> <\/p>\n 4<\/sup>Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?<\/span> <\/p>\n 5<\/sup>If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;<\/span> <\/p>\n 6<\/sup>Let me be weighed in an even balance that God may know mine integrity.<\/span> <\/p>\n 7<\/sup>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;<\/span> <\/p>\n 8<\/sup>Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.<\/span> <\/p>\n 9<\/sup>If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour's door;<\/span> <\/p>\n 10<\/sup>Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.<\/span> <\/p>\n 11<\/sup>For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.<\/span> <\/p>\n 12<\/sup>For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.<\/span> <\/p>\n 13<\/sup>If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;<\/span> <\/p>\n 14<\/sup>What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?<\/span> <\/p>\n 15<\/sup>Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?<\/span> <\/p>\n 16<\/sup>If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;<\/span> <\/p>\n 17<\/sup>Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;<\/span> <\/p>\n 18<\/sup>(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)<\/span> <\/p>\n 19<\/sup>If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;<\/span> <\/p>\n 20<\/sup>If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;<\/span> <\/p>\n 21<\/sup>If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:<\/span> <\/p>\n 22<\/sup>Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.<\/span> <\/p>\n 23<\/sup>For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.<\/span> <\/p>\n 24<\/sup>If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;<\/span> <\/p>\n 25<\/sup>If I rejoice because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much;<\/span> <\/p>\n 26<\/sup>If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;<\/span> <\/p>\n 27<\/sup>And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand:<\/span> <\/p>\n 28<\/sup>This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.<\/span> <\/p>\n 29<\/sup>If I rejoice at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:<\/span> <\/p>\n 30<\/sup>Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.<\/span> <\/p>\n 31<\/sup>If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.<\/span> <\/p>\n 32<\/sup>The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller.<\/span> <\/p>\n 33<\/sup>If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:<\/span> <\/p>\n 34<\/sup>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?<\/span> <\/p>\n 35<\/sup>Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.<\/span> <\/p>\n 36<\/sup>Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.<\/span> <\/p>\n 37<\/sup>I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.<\/span> <\/p>\n 38<\/sup>If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;<\/span> <\/p>\n 39<\/sup>If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:<\/span> <\/p>\n 40<\/sup>Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.<\/span> <\/p>\n