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and the inheritance of the Almighty from the heights?<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Is not destruction to the evil one? and strangeness to those working iniquity?<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Will he not see my way, and number all my steps?<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>If I went with vanity, and my foot will haste upon deceit;<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>He shall weigh me in balances of justice, and God will know mine integrity.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>If my going will incline from the way, and my heart went after mine eyes, and a blemish did cleave upon my hands:<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>I will sow and another shall eat; and my offspring shall be rooted up.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>If my heart was seduced by woman, and I laid wait at the door of my neighbor;<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>My wife shall grind for another, and others shall bow down upon her.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For this is crime, and this is iniquity for the judges.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>For it is a fire; it will devour even to destruction, and will root out upon all mine increase.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>If I shall despise the judgment of my servant and my maid in their contending with me;<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And what shall I do when God shall rise up? And when he shall review, what shall I turn back to him?<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Did not he making me in the womb, make him? And he will prepare us in one belly.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>If I shall withhold from the desire of the poor, and cause the eyes of the widow to fail;<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And eating my morsel alone, and the orphan ate not from it;<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>(For from my youth he grew up to me as a father, and I shall guide her from my mother's womb;)<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>If I shall see one perishing from not being clothed, and no covering to the needy;<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>If his loins did not praise me, and he will be warmed from the fleece of my sheep.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>If I lifted up my hand against the orphan when I shall see, my help in the gate:<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>My shoulder shall fall from its shoulder-blade, and mine, arm shall be broken from the bone.<p> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>For the destruction of God is a terror to me, and from his lifting up I shall not prevail.<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>If I set gold my hope, and said to gold, My trust;<p> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>If I shall rejoice because of the Multitude of my riches, and because my hand found much;<p> <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>If I shall see the light when it shall shine, and the moon going in splendor;<p> <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And my heart will be seduced in secret, and my hand shall kiss to my mouth:<p> <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Also this an iniquity for the judges: for I lied to God from above.<p> <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>If I shall rejoice in the destruction of him hating me, and I exalted when evil found him:<p> <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>And I gave not my palate to sin to ask in cursing his soul.<p> <A name="32"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>If the men of my tent said not, Who will give from his flesh? We shall not be satisfied.<p> <A name="33"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>The stranger shall not lodge without: I shall open my doors to the traveler.<p> <A name="34"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>If I covered my transgression, as man, to hide mine iniquity in my bosom:<p> <A name="35"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>If I, shall fear a great multitude, and the contempt of families terrify me, and I will be silent and not go out of my door.<p> <A name="36"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>Who will give to me hearing to me? Behold, my sign, the Almighty will answer me, and the man contending with me wrote a book.<p> <A name="37"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>If not, I shall lift it up upon my shoulder, I will bind it a crown to me.<p> <A name="38"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>The number of my steps I shall announce to him: as a leader I shall draw near to him.<p> <A name="39"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>If my land shall cry against me, and its, furrows shall weep together;<p> <A name="40"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>If I ate its strength without silver, and caused its possessors to expire:<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>The thorn shall come forth, instead of wheat, and the weed instead of barley. The words of Job were completed.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally From The Original Tongues by Julia E. 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