Job 31 — DRA

31Verse 1I made a covenant with my eyes, that I would not so much as think upon a virgin.^{Verse 2}For what part should God from above have in me, and what inheritance the Almighty from on high?^{Verse 3}Is not destruction to the wicked, and aversion to them that work iniquity?^{Verse 4}Doth not he consider my ways, and number all my steps?^{Verse 5}If I have walked in vanity, and my foot hath made haste to deceit:^{Verse 6}Let him weigh me in a just balance, and let God know my simplicity.^{Verse 7}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:^{Verse 8}Then let me sow and let another eat: and let my offspring be rooted out.^{Verse 9}If my heart hath been deceived upon a woman, and if I have laid wait at my friend’s door:^{Verse 10}Let my wife be the harlot of another, and let other men lie with her.^{Verse 11}For this is a heinous crime, and a most grievous iniquity.^{Verse 12}It is a fire that devoureth even to destruction, and rooteth up all things that spring.^{Verse 13}If I have despised to abide judgment with my manservant, or my maidservant, when they had any controversy against me:^{Verse 14}For what shall I do when God shall rise to judge? and when he shall examine, what shall I answer him?^{Verse 15}Did not he that made me in the womb make him also: and did not one and the same form me in the womb?^{Verse 16}If I have denied to the poor what they desired, and have made the eyes of the widow wait:^{Verse 17}If I have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof:^{Verse 18}(For from my infancy mercy grew up with me: and it came out with me from my mother’s womb:)^{Verse 19}If I have despised him that was perishing for want of clothing, and the poor man that had no covering:^{Verse 20}If his sides have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep:^{Verse 21}If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, even when I saw myself superior in the gate:^{Verse 22}Let my shoulder fall from its joint, and let my arm with its bones be broken.^{Verse 23}For I have always feared God as waves swelling over me, and his weight I was not able to bear.^{Verse 24}If I have thought gold my strength, and have said to fine gold: My confidence:^{Verse 25}If I have rejoiced over my great riches, and because my hand had gotten much.^{Verse 26}If I beheld the sun when it shined, and the moon going in brightness:^{Verse 27}And my heart in secret hath rejoiced, and I have kissed my hand with my mouth:^{Verse 28}Which is a very great iniquity, and a denial against the most high God.^{Verse 29}If I have been glad at the downfall of him that hated me, and have rejoiced that evil had found him.^{Verse 30}For I have not given my mouth to sin, by wishing a curse to his soul.^{Verse 31}If the men of my tabernacle have not said: Who will give us of his flesh that we may be filled?^{Verse 32}The stranger did not stay without, my door was open to the traveller.^{Verse 33}If as a man I have hid my sin, and have concealed my iniquity in my bosom.^{Verse 34}If I have been afraid at a very great multitude, and the contempt of kinsmen hath terrified me: and I have not rather held my peace, and not gone out of the door.^{Verse 35}Who would grant me a hearer, that the Almighty may hear my desire; and that he himself that judgeth would write a book,^{Verse 36}That I may carry it on my shoulder, and put it about me as a crown?^{Verse 37}At every step of mine I would pronounce it, and offer it as to a prince.^{Verse 38}If my land cry against me, and with it the furrows thereof mourn:^{Verse 39}If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, and have afflicted the soul of the tillers thereof:^{Verse 40}Let thistles grow up to me instead of wheat, and thorns instead of barley.