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1 - A covenant I made for mine eyes, And what--do I attend to a virgin?

2 - And what <FI>is<Fi> the portion of God from above? And the inheritance of the Mighty from the heights?

3 - Is not calamity to the perverse? And strangeness to workers of iniquity?

4 - Doth not He see my ways, And all my steps number?

5 - If I have walked with vanity, And my foot doth hasten to deceit,

6 - He doth weigh me in righteous balances, And God doth know my integrity.

7 - If my step doth turn aside from the way, And after mine eyes hath my heart gone, And to my hands cleaved hath blemish,

8 - Let me sow--and another eat, And my products let be rooted out.

9 - If my heart hath been enticed by woman, And by the opening of my neighbour I laid wait,

10 - Grind to another let my wife, And over her let others bend.

11 - For it <FI>is<Fi> a wicked thing, and a judicial iniquity;

12 - For a fire it <FI>is<Fi> , to destruction it consumeth, And among all mine increase doth take root,

13 - If I despise the cause of my man-servant, And of my handmaid, In their contending with me,

14 - Then what do I do when God ariseth? And when He doth inspect, What do I answer Him?

15 - Did not He that made me in the womb make him? Yea, prepare us in the womb doth One.

16 - If I withhold from pleasure the poor, And the eyes of the widow do consume,

17 - And I do eat my morsel by myself, And the orphan hath not eat of it,

18 - (But from my youth He grew up with me as <FI>with<Fi> a father, And from the belly of my mother I am led.)

19 - If I see <FI>any<Fi> perishing without clothing, And there is no covering to the needy,

20 - If his loins have not blessed me, And from the fleece of my sheep He doth not warm himself,

21 - If I have waved at the fatherless my hand, When I see in <FI>him<Fi> the gate of my court,

22 - My shoulder from its blade let fall, And mine arm from the bone be broken.

23 - For a dread unto me <FI>is<Fi> calamity <FI>from<Fi> God, And because of His excellency I am not able.

24 - If I have made gold my confidence, And to the pure gold have said, `My trust,'

25 - If I rejoice because great <FI>is<Fi> my wealth, And because abundance hath my hand found,

26 - If I see the light when it shineth, And the precious moon walking,

27 - And my heart is enticed in secret, And my hand doth kiss my mouth,

28 - It also <FI>is<Fi> a judicial iniquity, For I had lied to God above.

29 - If I rejoice at the ruin of my hater, And stirred up myself when evil found him,

30 - Yea, I have not suffered my mouth to sin, To ask with an oath his life.

31 - If not--say ye, O men of my tent, `O that we had of his flesh, we are not satisfied.'

32 - In the street doth not lodge a stranger, My doors to the traveller I open.

33 - If I have covered as Adam my transgressions, To hide in my bosom mine iniquity,

34 - Because I fear a great multitude, And the contempt of families doth affright me, Then I am silent, I go not out of the opening.

35 - Who giveth to me a hearing? lo, my mark. The Mighty One doth answer me, And a bill hath mine adversary written.

36 - If not--on my shoulder I take it up, I bind it a crown on myself.

37 - The number of my steps I tell Him, As a leader I approach Him.

38 - If against me my land doth cry out, And together its furrows weep,

39 - If its strength I consumed without money, And the life of its possessors, I have caused to breathe out,

40 - Instead of wheat let a thorn go forth, And instead of barley a useless weed! The words of Job are finished.