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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 WEB</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" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></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="../">WEB</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">World English Bible</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, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?</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>Doesn't 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 has hurried 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 has turned out of the way, if my heart walked after my eyes, if any defilement has stuck 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 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 has been enticed to 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 for another, and let others sleep with her.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For that would be a heinous crime. Yes, it would be 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 consumes 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 have despised the cause of my male servant or of my female 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 rises up? When he visits, what shall I answer him?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Didn't he who made me in the womb make him? Didn't 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 has not eaten of it</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>(no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, 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 heart hasn't blessed me, if he hasn't been warmed with my sheep's fleece;</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 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 calamity from God is a terror to me. Because 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, 'You are 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 seen the sun when it shined, or the moon moving in splendor,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges; for I should have denied the God who 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 who 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>(yes, I have not allowed my 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 who has 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 foreigner has not lodged in the street, but I have 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 like Adam I have covered my transgressions, by hiding my iniquity in my heart,</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 didn't go 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! (behold, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me); let the accuser write my indictment!</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>Surely I would carry it on my shoulder; and I would bind it to 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 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 cries out against me, and its furrows weep together;</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>if I have eaten its fruits 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 briars grow instead of wheat, and stinkweed instead of barley." The words of Job are ended.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The World English Bible is a 1997 revision of the American Standard Version of the Holy Bible, first published in 1901. It is in the Public Domain. Please feel free to copy and distribute it freely. Thank you to Michael Paul Johnson for making this work available. 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