Job   
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31:1"I made a covenant with my eyes not to look lustfully at a girl.
31:2For what is man's lot from God above, his heritage from the Almighty on high?
31:3Is it not ruin for the wicked, disaster for those who do wrong?
31:4Does he not see my ways and count my every step?
31:5"If I have walked in falsehood or my foot has hurried after deceit--
31:6let God weigh me in honest scales and he will know that I am blameless--
31:7if my steps have turned from the path, if my heart has been led by my eyes, or if my hands have been defiled,
31:8then may others eat what I have sown, and may my crops be uprooted.
31:9"If my heart has been enticed by a woman, or if I have lurked at my neighbor's door,
31:10then may my wife grind another man's grain, and may other men sleep with her.
31:11For that would have been shameful, a sin to be judged.
31:12It is a fire that burns to Destruction; it would have uprooted my harvest.
31:13"If I have denied justice to my menservants and maidservants when they had a grievance against me,
31:14what will I do when God confronts me? What will I answer when called to account?
31:15Did not he who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same one form us both within our mothers?
31:16"If I have denied the desires of the poor or let the eyes of the widow grow weary,
31:17if I have kept my bread to myself, not sharing it with the fatherless--
31:18but from my youth I reared him as would a father, and from my birth I guided the widow--
31:19if I have seen anyone perishing for lack of clothing, or a needy man without a garment,
31:20and his heart did not bless me for warming him with the fleece from my sheep,
31:21if I have raised my hand against the fatherless, knowing that I had influence in court,
31:22then let my arm fall from the shoulder, let it be broken off at the joint.
31:23For I dreaded destruction from God, and for fear of his splendor I could not do such things.
31:24"If I have put my trust in gold or said to pure gold, 'You are my security,'
31:25if I have rejoiced over my great wealth, the fortune my hands had gained,
31:26if I have regarded the sun in its radiance or the moon moving in splendor,
31:27so that my heart was secretly enticed and my hand offered them a kiss of homage,
31:28then these also would be sins to be judged, for I would have been unfaithful to God on high.
31:29"If I have rejoiced at my enemy's misfortune or gloated over the trouble that came to him--
31:30I have not allowed my mouth to sin by invoking a curse against his life--
31:31if the men of my household have never said, 'Who has not had his fill of Job's meat?'--
31:32but no stranger had to spend the night in the street, for my door was always open to the traveler--
31:33if I have concealed my sin as men do, by hiding my guilt in my heart
31:34because I so feared the crowd and so dreaded the contempt of the clans that I kept silent and would not go outside
31:35("Oh, that I had someone to hear me! I sign now my defense--let the Almighty answer me; let my accuser put his indictment in writing.
31:36Surely I would wear it on my shoulder, I would put it on like a crown.
31:37I would give him an account of my every step; like a prince I would approach him.)--
31:38"if my land cries out against me and all its furrows are wet with tears,
31:39if I have devoured its yield without payment or broken the spirit of its tenants,
31:40then let briers come up instead of wheat and weeds instead of barley." The words of Job are ended.
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