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Job 31

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Job Asserts His Integrity

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


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