31:1 �I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?
31:2 For what is the portion from God above, and the heritage from the Almighty on high?
31:3 Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?
31:4 Doesn�t he see my ways, and number all my steps?
31:5 �If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot has hurried to deceit
31:6 (let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity);
31:7 if my step has turned out of the way, if my heart walked after my eyes, if any defilement has stuck to my hands,
31:8 then let me sow, and let another eat. Yes, let the produce of my field be rooted out.
31:9 �If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbor�s door,
31:10 then let my wife grind for another, and let others sleep with her.
31:11 For that would be a heinous crime. Yes, it would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges:
31:12 For it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase.
31:13 �If I have despised the cause of my male servant or of my female servant, when they contended with me;
31:14 What then shall I do when God rises up? When he visits, what shall I answer him?
31:15 Didn�t he who made me in the womb make him? Didn�t one fashion us in the womb?
31:16 �If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
31:17 or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it
31:18 (no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, her have I guided from my mother�s womb);
31:19 if I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;
31:20 if his heart hasn�t blessed me, if he hasn�t been warmed with my sheep�s fleece;
31:21 if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,
31:22 then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from the bone.
31:23 For calamity from God is a terror to me. Because his majesty, I can do nothing.
31:24 �If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, �You are my confidence;�
31:25 If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;
31:26 if I have seen the sun when it shined, or the moon moving in splendor,
31:27 and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth,
31:28 this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges; for I should have denied the God who is above.
31:29 �If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him;
31:30 (yes, I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse);
31:31 if the men of my tent have not said, �Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?�
31:32 (the foreigner has not lodged in the street, but I have opened my doors to the traveler);
31:33 if like Adam I have covered my transgressions, by hiding my iniquity in my heart,
31:34 because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and didn�t go out of the door�
31:35 oh that I had one to hear me! (behold, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me); let the accuser write my indictment!
31:36 Surely I would carry it on my shoulder; and I would bind it to me as a crown.
31:37 I would declare to him the number of my steps. as a prince would I go near to him.
31:38 If my land cries out against me, and its furrows weep together;
31:39 if I have eaten its fruits without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life,
31:40 let briars grow instead of wheat, and stinkweed instead of barley.� The words of Job are ended.
