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1 - I Made a covenant with my eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?

2 - For what portion of God [is there] from above? and [what] inheritance of the Almighty from on high?

3 - [Is] not destruction to the wicked? and a strange [punishment] to the workers of iniquity?

4 - Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?

5 - If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;

6 - Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity.

7 - If my step hath turned out of the way, and my heart walked after my eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to my hands;

8 - [Then] let me sow, and let another eat; yes, let my offspring be rooted out.

9 - If my heart hath been deceived by a woman, or [if] I have laid wait at my neighbor's door;

10 - [Then] let my wife grind to another, and let others bow down upon her.

11 - For this [is] a hainous crime; yea, it [is] an iniquity [to be punished by] the judges.

12 - For it [is] a fire [that] consumeth to destruction, and would root out all my increase.

13 - If I despised the cause of my man-servant or of my maid-servant, when they contended with me;

14 - What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?

15 - Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?

16 - If I have withheld the poor from [their] desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

17 - Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten of it;

18 - (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as [with] a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)

19 - If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;

20 - If his loins have not blessed me, and [if] he hath not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

21 - If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:

22 - [Then] let my arm fall from my shoulder-blade, and my arm be broken from the bone.

23 - For destruction [from] God [was] a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.

24 - If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, [Thou art] my confidence;

25 - If I have rejoiced because my wealth [was] great, and because my hand had gained much;

26 - If I have beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking [in] brightness;

27 - And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand:

28 - This also [were] an iniquity [to be punished by] the judge: for I should have denied the God [that is] above.

29 - If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or have lifted up myself when evil found him:

30 - Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.

31 - If the men of my tabernacle have not said, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.

32 - The stranger did not lodge in the street: [but] I opened my doors to the traveler.

33 - If I have covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom:

34 - 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?

35 - Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire [is], [that] the Almighty would answer me, and [that] my adversary had written a book.

36 - Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, [and] bind it [as] a crown to me.

37 - I would declare to him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near to him.

38 - If my land crieth against me, or its furrows likewise complain;

39 - If I have eaten the fruits of it without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life:

40 - Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.