Job 31 — WBMS
31Verse 1I made [a] covenant with mine eyes, that I should not think on a virgin.Verse 2For what part should God above have in me, and what heritage should Almighty God of high things have in me?Verse 3Whether perdition is not to a wicked man, and alienation of God is to men working wickedness?Verse 4Whether he beholdeth not my ways, and numbereth all my goings?Verse 5If I have gone in vanity, and my foot hath hasted to go in guile [or treachery],Verse 6God weigh me in a just balance, and know he my simpleness.Verse 7If my steps have bowed from the way; and if mine eyes have pursued [or followed] mine heart, consenting to lust, and if a spot have cleaved to mine hands;Verse 8sow I, and another eat, and my generation be drawn out by the root.Verse 9And if mine heart was deceived on a woman, and if I have set ambush at the door of my friend;Verse 10my wife be then the whore of another man, and other men be bowed down upon her.Verse 11For this is unleaveful, and the most wickedness.Verse 12Fire is devouring till to wasting, and drawing up by the root all generations.Verse 13If I despised to take doom with my servant and with mine handmaid, when they strived against me.Verse 14What soothly shall I do, when God shall rise up to deem? and when he shall ask, what shall I answer to him?Verse 15Whether he, that wrought also him, made not me in the womb, and one God formed me in the womb?Verse 16If I denied to poor men that, that they would, and if I made the eyes of a widow to abide;Verse 17if I alone ate my morsel, and a fatherless child ate not thereof;Verse 18for merciful doing increased with me, from my young childhood, and it went out of my mother’s womb with me;Verse 19if I despised a man passing forth by me, for he had not a cloth, and a poor man without covering;Verse 20if his sides blessed not me, and were not made hot of the fleece of my sheep;Verse 21if I raised up mine hand upon a fatherless child, yea, when I saw me the higher in the gate;Verse 22my shoulder fall from his joint, and mine arm with his bones be all-broken.Verse 23For ever[more] I dreaded God, as waves waxing great upon me; and I might not bear his burden.Verse 24If I guessed gold my strength, and I said to pured gold, Thou art my trust;Verse 25if I was glad on my many riches, and for mine hand found full many things;Verse 26if I saw the sun, when it shined, and the moon going clearly;Verse 27and if mine heart was glad in private, and if I kissed mine hand with my mouth;Verse 28the which is the most wickedness, and denying against the highest God;Verse 29if I had joy at the falling of him, that hated me, and if I joyed fully [or full out joyed], that evil had found him;Verse 30for I gave not my throat to do sin, that I should assail and curse his soul;Verse 31if the men of my tabernacle said not, Who giveth, that we be [ful] filled of his fleshes?Verse 32a pilgrim dwelled not withoutforth; my door was open to a way-goer or a way-faring man;Verse 33if I as [a] man hid my sin, and covered my wickedness in my bosom;Verse 34if I dreaded at [the] full great multitude, and if despising of neigh-bours made me afeared; and not more, I was still, and went not out of the door;Verse 35who giveth then an helper to me, that Almighty God hear my desire? that he that deemeth, write a book,Verse 36that I bear it on my shoulder, and encompass it as a crown to me?Verse 37By all my degrees I shall pronounce it, and I shall as offering offer it to the prince.Verse 38If my land crieth against me, and his furrows weep with it;Verse 39if I ate fruits thereof without money, and I tormented the soul of earth-tillers of it;Verse 40a briar grow to me for wheat, and a thorn for barley.