CINXE.COM

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://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=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Job 31 Douay-Rheims Bible</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="/bmcc/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="http://biblehub.com/catholic">Bible</a> > <a href="../">DRB</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"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Douay-Rheims Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Job's Final Appeal</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/31-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>I made a covenant with my eyes, that I would not so much as think upon a virgin.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/31-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>For what part should God from above have in me, and what inheritance the Almighty from on high?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/31-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Is not destruction to the wicked, and aversion to them that work iniquity?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/31-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Doth not he consider my ways, and number all my steps?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/31-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>If I have walked in vanity, and my foot hath made haste to deceit:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/31-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Let him weigh me in a just balance, and let God know my simplicity.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/31-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>If my step hath turned out of the way, and if my heart hath followed my eyes, and if a spot hath cleaved to my hands:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/31-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Then let me sow and let another reap: and let my offspring be rooted out.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/31-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>If my heart hath been deceived upon a woman, and if I have laid wait at my friend's door:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/31-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Let my wife be the harlot of another, and let other men lie with her.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/31-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For this is a heinous crime, and a most grievous iniquity.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/31-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>It is a fire that devoureth even to destruction, and rooteth up all things that spring.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/31-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>If I have despised to abide judgment with my manservant, or my maidservant, when they had any controversy against me:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/31-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>For what shall I do when God shall rise to judge? and when he shall examine, what shall I answer him?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/31-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Did not he that made me in the womb make him also: and did not one and the same form me in the womb?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/31-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>If I have denied to the poor what they desired, and have made the eyes of the widow wait:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/31-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>If I have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/31-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>(For from my infancy mercy grew up with me: and it came out with me from my mother's womb:)</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/31-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>If I have despised him that was perishing for want of clothing, and the poor man that had no covering:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/31-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>If his sides have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/31-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, even when I saw myself superior in the gate:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/31-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Let my shoulder fall from its joint, and let my arm with its bones be broken.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/31-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>For I have always feared God as waves swelling over me, and his weight I was unable to bear.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/31-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>If I have thought gold my strength, and have said to fine gold: My confidence:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/31-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>If I have rejoiced over my great riches, and because my hand had gotten much.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/31-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>If I beheld the sun when it shined and the moon going in brightness:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/31-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And my heart in secret hath rejoiced, and I have kissed my hand with my mouth:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/31-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Which is a very great iniquity, and a denial against the most high God.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/31-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>If I have been glad at the downfall of him that hated me, and have rejoiced that evil had found him.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/31-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>For I have not been given my mouth to sin, by wishing a curse to his soul.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/31-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>If the men of my tabernacle have not said: Who will give us of his flesh that we may be filled?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/31-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>The stranger did not stay without, my door was open to the traveller.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/31-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>If as a man I have hid my sin, and have concealed my iniquity in my bosom.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/31-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>If I have been afraid at a very great multitude, and the contempt of kinsmen hath terrified me: and have not rather held my peace, and not gone out of the door.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/31-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>Who would grant me a hearing, that the Almighty may hear my desire: and that he himself that judgeth would write a book,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/31-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>That I may carry it on my shoulder, and put it about me as a crown?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/31-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>At every step of mine I would pronounce it, and offer it as to a prince.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/31-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>If my land cry against me, and with it the furrows thereof mourn:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/31-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, and have afflicted the son of the tillers thereof:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/31-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>Let thistles grow up to me instead of wheat, and thorns instead of barley.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Douay Rheims Version - Bishop Challoner Revision<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../job/30.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Job 30"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Job 30" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../job/32.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Job 32"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Job 32" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchap.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>