Job Job, chapter Book of Job, chapter 31
I made a covenant with my eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?Gen 34:1; Mat 5:28
For what portion of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] [is there] from above? and [what] inheritance of the Almighty from on high?
[Is] not destruction to the wicked? and a strange [punishment] to the workers of iniquity?
Does not he see my ways, and count all my steps?Job 23:10; Job 34:21; Psa 139:3
If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot has hasted to deceit;
Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] may know my integrity.
If my step has turned out of the way, and my heart walked after my eyes, and if any blot has cleaved to my hands;Psa 7:3
[Then] let me sow, and let another eat; yes, let my offspring be rooted out.Lev 26:16; Deu 28:30; Deu 28:38
If my heart have been deceived by a woman, or [if] I have laid wait at my neighbour’s door;Job 24:15
[Then] let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.Deu 28:30
For this [is] an heinous crime; yes, it [is] an iniquity [to be punished by] the judges.Gen 38:24; Lev 20:10
For it [is] a fire [that] consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase.Isa 47:14
If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;Eph 6:9; Col 4:1
What then shall I do when God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] rises up? and when he visits, what shall I answer him?
Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
If I have withheld the poor from [their] desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;1Jn 3:17; Jas 2:15
Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless has not eaten thereof;Luk 14:13
(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as [with] a father, and I have guided her from my mother’s womb;)Job 29:16
If I have seen any perish for lack of clothing, or any poor without covering;Isa 58:7
If his waist have not Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous) me, and [if] he were [not] warmed with the fleece of my sheep;Deu 24:13
If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:Isa 58:4
[Then] let my arm fall from my shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from the bone.Zec 11:17
For destruction [from] God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] [was] a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.Gen 50:19
If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, [youi are] my confidence;Psa 62:10; Mrk 10:24
If I rejoiced because my wealth [was] great, and because my hand had gotten much;
If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking [in] brightness;Deu 4:19; Ezk 8:16
And my heart has been secretly enticed, or my mouth has kissed my hand:1Ki 19:18
This also [were] an iniquity [to be punished by] the judge: for I should have denied the God-El [The Powerful Living Word] [that is] above.Tit 1:16
If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:Pro 24:17
Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.
If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.
The stranger did not lodge in the street: [but] I opened my doors to the traveller.Gen 19:2; Rom 12:13; Heb 13:2
If I covered my transgressions as Adam (Man, ground; red; earthling), by hiding my iniquity in my bosom:Gen 3:8; Hos 6:7
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?
Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire [is, that] the Almighty would answer me, and [that] my adversary had written a book.
Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, [and] bind it [as] a crown to me.
I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.
If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;
If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:Jas 5:11
Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle (a weed resembling wheat) instead of barley. The words of Iyov [hated] are ended.