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And the inheritance of the Mighty from the heights?<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Is not calamity to the perverse? And strangeness to workers of iniquity?<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Does He not see my ways, "" And number all my steps?<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>If I have walked with vanity, "" And my foot hurries to deceit,<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>He weighs me in righteous balances, "" And God knows my integrity.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>If my step turns aside from the way, "" And my heart has gone after my eyes, "" And blemish has cleaved to my hands,<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Let me sow—and another eat, "" And let my products be rooted out.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>If my heart has been enticed by a woman, "" And I laid wait by the opening of my neighbor,<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Let my wife grind to another, "" And let others bend over her.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For it [is] a wicked thing, and a judicial iniquity;<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>For it [is] a fire, it consumes to destruction, "" And takes root among all my increase,<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>If I despise the cause of my manservant, "" And of my handmaid, "" In their contending with me,<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Then what do I do when God arises? And when He inspects, "" What do I answer Him?<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Did He that made me in the womb not make him? Indeed, One prepares us in the womb.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>If I withhold the poor from pleasure, "" And consume the eyes of the widow,<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And I eat my morsel by myself, "" And the orphan has nothing [to] eat of it,<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>(But from my youth "" He grew up with me as [with] a father, "" And from the belly of my mother I am led),<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>If I see [any] perishing without clothing, "" And there is no covering for the needy,<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>If his loins have not blessed me, "" And from the fleece of my sheep "" He does not warm himself,<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>If I have waved my hand at the fatherless, "" When I see [him] in the gate of my court,<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Let my shoulder fall from its blade, "" And the bone from my arm be broken.<p> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>For calamity [from] God [is] a dread to me, "" And because of His excellence I am not able.<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>If I have made gold my confidence, "" And to the pure gold have said, My trust;<p> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>If I rejoice because my wealth [is] great, "" And because my hand has found abundance,<p> <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>If I see the light when it shines, "" And the precious moon walking,<p> <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And my heart is enticed in secret, "" And my hand kisses my mouth,<p> <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>It also [is] a judicial iniquity, "" For I had lied to God above.<p> <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>If I rejoice at the ruin of my hater, "" And stirred up myself when evil found him,<p> <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Indeed, I have not permitted my mouth to sin, "" To ask with an oath his life.<p> <A name="32"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>If not, say, O men of my tent: O that we had of his flesh, we are not satisfied.<p> <A name="33"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>A stranger does not lodge in the street, "" I open my doors to the traveler.<p> <A name="34"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>If I have covered my transgressions as Adam, "" To hide my iniquity in my bosom,<p> <A name="35"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>Because I fear a great multitude, "" And the contempt of families frightens me, "" Then I am silent, I do not go out of the opening.<p> <A name="36"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>Who gives to me a hearing? Behold, my mark. The Mighty One answers me, "" And my adversary has written a bill.<p> <A name="37"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>If not—on my shoulder I take it up, "" I bind it [as] a crown on myself.<p> <A name="38"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>The number of my steps I tell Him, "" As a leader I approach Him.<p> <A name="39"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>If my land cries out against me, "" And together its furrows weep,<p> <A name="40"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>If I consumed its strength without money, "" And the life of its possessors, I have caused to breathe out,<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>Instead of wheat let a thorn go forth, "" And instead of barley a useless weed!” The words of Job are finished.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Literal Standard Version<br>Copyright © 2022 by Covenant Press. 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