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| 31:1 |
I made a covenant with mine eyes; and how should I fix my regard upon a maid?
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| 31:2 |
For what would have been [my] portion of +God from above, and what the heritage of the Almighty from on high?
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| 31:3 |
Is not calamity for the unrighteous? and misfortune for 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, and +God will take knowledge of my blamelessness;)
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| 31:7 |
If my step have turned out of the way, and my heart followed mine eyes, and if any blot cleaveth to my hands;
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| 31:8 |
Let me sow, and another eat; and let mine offspring be rooted out.
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| 31:9 |
If my heart have been enticed unto a woman, so that I laid wait at my neighbour's door,
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| 31:10 |
Let my wife grind for another, and let others bow down upon her.
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| 31:11 |
For this is an infamy; yea, it is an iniquity [to be judged by] the judges:
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| 31:12 |
For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.
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| 31:13 |
If I have despised the cause of my bondman or of my bondmaid, when they contended with me,
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| 31:14 |
What then should I do when God riseth up? and if he visited, what should 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 caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
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| 31:17 |
Or have eaten my morsel alone, so that the fatherless ate not thereof,
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| 31:18 |
(For from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, and I have guided the [widow] from my mother's womb;)
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| 31:19 |
If I have seen any perishing for want of clothing, or any needy without covering;
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| 31:20 |
If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my lambs;
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| 31:21 |
If I have lifted up my hand against an orphan, 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 was a terror to me, and by reason of his excellency I was powerless.
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| 31:24 |
If I have made gold my hope, or said to the fine gold, My confidence!
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| 31:25 |
If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;
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| 31:26 |
If I beheld the sun when it shone, or the moon walking in brightness,
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| 31:27 |
And my heart have been secretly enticed, so that my mouth kissed my hand:
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| 31:28 |
This also would be an iniquity for the judge, for I should have denied the God who is above.
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| 31:29 |
If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, and exulted when evil befell him;
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| 31:30 |
(Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse;)
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| 31:31 |
If the men of my tent said not, Who shall find one that hath not been satisfied with his meat? --
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| 31:32 |
The stranger did not lodge without; I opened my doors to the pathway.
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| 31:33 |
If I covered my transgressions as Adam, 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! Behold my signature: let the Almighty answer me! And let mine opponent write an accusation!
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| 31:36 |
Would I not take it upon my shoulder? I would bind it on to 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 come near to him.
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| 31:38 |
If my land cry out against me, and its furrows weep together;
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| 31:39 |
If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, and have tormented to death the souls of its owners:
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| 31:40 |
Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and tares instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.
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