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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Job 31 WBT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/job/31.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/job/31-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">WBT</a> > Job 31</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../job/30.htm" title="Job 30">◄</a> Job 31 <a href="../job/32.htm" title="Job 32">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Webster Bible Translation</div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Job's Final Appeal</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>I Made a covenant with my eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>If my step hath turned out of the way, and my heart walked after my eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to my hands;</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Then let me sow, and let another eat; yes, let my offspring be rooted out.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>If my heart hath been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbor's door;</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Then let my wife grind to another, and let others bow down upon her.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For this is a hainous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all my increase.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>If I despised the cause of my man-servant or of my maid-servant, when they contended with me;</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten of it;</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>If his loins have not blessed me, and if he hath not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep;</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Then let my arm fall from my shoulder-blade, and my arm be broken from the bone.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gained much;</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>If I have beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or have lifted up myself when evil found him:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>If the men of my tabernacle have not said, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveler.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>If I have covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>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?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that my adversary had written a book.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>I would declare to him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near to him.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>If my land crieth against me, or its furrows likewise complain;</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>If I have eaten the fruits of it without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. 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