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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 ASV</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="../">ASV</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">American Standard Version</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 mine eyes; How then should I look upon a virgin?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>For what is the portion from God above, And the heritage from the Almighty on high?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, And disaster 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 number 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 falsehood, And 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 mine 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 mine eyes, And if any spot 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; Yea, let the produce of my field 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 enticed unto a woman, And 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 unto 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 that were a heinous crime; Yea, it were 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 unto Destruction, And would root out all mine increase.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>If I have 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 alone, And the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>(Nay, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, And her have I guided 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 that the needy had no 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, Because 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 shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade, And mine 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 calamity from God is a terror to me, And by reason of his majesty I can do nothing.</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, And 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 gotten 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, And 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 judges; 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 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>(Yea, I have not suffered by mouth to sin By asking his life with a curse);</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>If the men of my tent have not said, Who can find one that hath not been filled with his meat?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>(The sojourner hath not lodged in the street; But I have opened my doors to the traveller);</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>If like Adam I have covered my transgressions, By hiding mine iniquity in my bosom,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>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-</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>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!</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>Surely I would carry it upon my shoulder; I would bind it unto me as a crown:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>I would declare unto him the number of my steps; As a prince would I go near unto him.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>If my land crieth out against me, And the furrows thereof weep together;</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, Or have caused the owners thereof 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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