311I made a covenant with mine eyes; and how should I fix my regard upon a maid?+2For what would have been [my] portion ofGod from above, and what the heritage of the Almighty from on high?+3Is not calamity for the unrighteous? and misfortune for the workers of iniquity?+4Doth not he see my ways, and number all my steps?+5If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot hath hasted to deceit,+6(Let me be weighed in an even balance, andGod will take knowledge of my blamelessness;)+7If my step have turned out of the way, and my heart followed mine eyes, and if any blot cleaveth to my hands;+8Let me sow, and another eat; and let mine offspring be rooted out.+9If my heart have been enticed unto a woman, so that I laid wait at my neighbour's door,+10Let my wife grind for another, and let others bow down upon her.+11For this is an infamy; yea, it is an iniquity [to be judged by] the judges:+12For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.+13If I have despised the cause of my bondman or of my bondmaid, when they contended with me,+14What then should I do whenGod riseth up? and if he visited, what should I answer him?+15Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not One fashion us in the womb?+16If I have withheld the poor from [their] desire, or caused the eyes of the widow to fail;+17Or have eaten my morsel alone, so that the fatherless ate not thereof,+18(For from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, and I have guided the [widow] from my mother's womb;)+19If I have seen any perishing for want of clothing, or any needy without covering;+20If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my lambs;+21If I have lifted up my hand against an orphan, because I saw my help in the gate:+22[Then] let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone!+23For calamity fromGod was a terror to me, and by reason of his excellency I was powerless.+24If I have made gold my hope, or said to the fine gold, My confidence!+25If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;+26If I beheld the sun when it shone, or the moon walking in brightness,+27And my heart have been secretly enticed, so that my mouth kissed my hand:+28This also would be an iniquity for the judge, for I should have denied theGod who is above.+29If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, and exulted when evil befell him;+30(Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse;)+31If the men of my tent said not, Who shall find one that hath not been satisfied with his meat? —+32The stranger did not lodge without; I opened my doors to the pathway.+33If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom,+34Because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and went not out of the door,...+35Oh that I had one to hear me! Behold my signature: let the Almighty answer me! And let mine opponent write an accusation!+36Would I not take it upon my shoulder? I would bind it on to me [as] a crown;+37I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I come near to him.+38If my land cry out against me, and its furrows weep together;+39If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, and have tormented to death the souls of its owners:+40Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and tares instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.+
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