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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">King James 2000</div><div class="chap"><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/31-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="black">I made a covenant with my eyes; why then should I think upon a maiden?</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/31-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="black">For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/31-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="black">Is not destruction to the wicked? and a disaster to the workers of iniquity?</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/31-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="black">Does not he see my ways, and count all my steps?</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/31-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="black">If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot has hastened to deceit;</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/31-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="black">Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/31-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="black">If my step has turned out of the way, and my heart walked after my eyes, and if any spot has cleaved to my hands;</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/31-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="black">Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/31-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="black">If my heart has been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbor's door;</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/31-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="black">Then let my wife grind for another, and let others bow down upon her.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/31-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="black">For this is a heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/31-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="black">For it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/31-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="black">If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/31-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="black">What then shall I do when God rises up? and when he comes, what shall I answer him?</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/31-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="black">Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/31-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="black">If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/31-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="black">Or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it;</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/31-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="black">(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided him from my mother's womb;)</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/31-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="black">If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/31-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="black">If his heart has not blessed me, and if he was not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/31-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="black">If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw I had help in the gate:</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/31-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="black">Then let my arm fall from my shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from its socket.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/31-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="black">For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his majesty I could not endure.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/31-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="black">If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, You are my confidence;</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/31-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="black">If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/31-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="black">If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon moving in brightness;</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/31-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="black">And my heart has been secretly enticed, or my mouth has kissed my hand:</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/31-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span><span class="black">This also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/31-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span><span class="black">If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/31-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span><span class="black">Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/31-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span><span class="black">If the men of my tent have not, Oh that we had of his meat! we cannot be satisfied.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/31-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span><span class="black">The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveler.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/31-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span><span class="black">If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom:</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/31-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span><span class="black">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?</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/31-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span><span class="black">Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that my adversary had written a book.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/31-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span><span class="black">Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/31-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span><span class="black">I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/31-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span><span class="black">If my land cries against me, and its furrows likewise complain;</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/31-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span><span class="black">If I have eaten its fruit without payment, or have caused its owners to lose their life:</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/31-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span><span class="black">Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and weeds instead of barley. 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