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| 31:1 |
I made a covenant with mine eyes; How then should I look upon a virgin?
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| 31:2 |
For what is the portion from God above, And the heritage from the Almighty on high?
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| 31:3 |
Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, And disaster to the workers of iniquity?
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| 31:4 |
Doth not he see my ways, And number all my steps?
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| 31:5 |
If I have walked with falsehood, And my foot hath hasted to deceit
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| 31:6 |
(Let me be weighed in an even balance, That God may know mine integrity);
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| 31:7 |
If my step hath turned out of the way, And my heart walked after mine eyes, And if any spot hath cleaved to my hands:
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| 31:8 |
Then let me sow, and let another eat; Yea, let the produce of my field be rooted out.
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| 31:9 |
If my heart hath been enticed unto a woman, And I have laid wait at my neighbor's door;
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| 31:10 |
Then let my wife grind unto another, And let others bow down upon her.
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| 31:11 |
For that were a heinous crime; Yea, it were an iniquity to be punished by the judges:
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| 31:12 |
For it is a fire that consumeth unto Destruction, And would root out all mine increase.
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| 31:13 |
If I have despised the cause of my man-servant or of my maid-servant, When they contended with me;
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| 31:14 |
What then shall I do when God riseth up? And when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?
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| 31:15 |
Did not he that made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb?
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| 31:16 |
If I have withheld the poor from [their] desire, Or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
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| 31:17 |
Or have eaten my morsel alone, And the fatherless hath not eaten thereof
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| 31:18 |
(Nay, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, And her have I guided from my mother's womb);
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| 31:19 |
If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, Or that the needy had no covering;
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| 31:20 |
If his loins have not blessed me, And if he hath not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
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| 31:21 |
If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, Because I saw my help in the gate:
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| 31:22 |
Then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade, And mine arm be broken from the bone.
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| 31:23 |
For calamity from God is a terror to me, And by reason of his majesty I can do nothing.
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| 31:24 |
If I have made gold my hope, And have said to the fine gold, [Thou art] my confidence;
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| 31:25 |
If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, And because my hand had gotten much;
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| 31:26 |
If I have beheld the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness,
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| 31:27 |
And my heart hath been secretly enticed, And my mouth hath kissed my hand:
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| 31:28 |
This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judges; For I should have denied the God that is above.
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| 31:29 |
If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, Or lifted up myself when evil found him;
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| 31:30 |
(Yea, I have not suffered by mouth to sin By asking his life with a curse);
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| 31:31 |
If the men of my tent have not said, Who can find one that hath not been filled with his meat?
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| 31:32 |
(The sojourner hath not lodged in the street; But I have opened my doors to the traveller);
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| 31:33 |
If like Adam I have covered my transgressions, By hiding mine iniquity in my bosom,
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| 31:34 |
Because I feared the great multitude, And the contempt of families terrified me, So that I kept silence, and went not out of the door --
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| 31:35 |
Oh that I had one to hear me! (Lo, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me); And [that I had] the indictment which mine adversary hath written!
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| 31:36 |
Surely I would carry it upon my shoulder; I would bind it unto me as a crown:
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| 31:37 |
I would declare unto him the number of my steps; As a prince would I go near unto him.
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| 31:38 |
If my land crieth out against me, And the furrows thereof weep together;
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| 31:39 |
If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, Or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:
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| 31:40 |
Let thistles grow instead of wheat, And cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.
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