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and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Does not he see my ways, and count 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 vanity, or if 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, and my heart walked after my eyes, and if any blot 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 my offspring be rooted out.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>If my heart have been deceived by a woman, or if 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 to another, and let others bow down on her.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For this is an heinous crime; yes, it is 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 did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, 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? and 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>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 myself alone, and the fatherless has not eaten thereof;</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her 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 any poor without 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 were not 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, when 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 arm fall from my 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 destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.</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, or 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 rejoice 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 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 has been secretly enticed, or my mouth has 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 judge: 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 rejoice 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>Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the travelers.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>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?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that my adversary had written a book.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>Surely I would take it on my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.</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 cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;</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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