1 I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?
2 For what portion of God
3 Is
4 Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?
5 If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;
6 Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity.
7 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;
8 Then
9 If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or
10 Then
11 For this
12 For it
13 If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;
14 What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?
15 Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
16 If I have withheld the poor from
17 Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;
18 (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as
19 If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;
20 If his loins have not blessed me, and
21 If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:
22 Then
23 For destruction
24 If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold,
25 If I rejoiced because my wealth
26 If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking
27 And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand:
28 This also
29 If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:
30 Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.
31 If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.
32 The stranger did not lodge in the street:
33 If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:
34 Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence,
35 Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire
36 Surely I would take it upon my shoulder,
37 I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.
38 If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;
39 If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:
40 Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.