Job 31:1–23

31“I have made a covenant with my eyes;

Why then should I ¹look upon a ^ayoung woman?

²For what is the ^ballotment of God from above,

And the inheritance of the Almighty from on high?

³Is it not destruction for the wicked,

And disaster for the workers of iniquity?

^4cDoes He not see my ways,

And count all my steps?

⁵“If I have walked with falsehood,

Or if my foot has hastened to deceit,

⁶²Let me be weighed on honest scales,

That God may know my ^dintegrity.

⁷If my step has turned from the way,

Or ^emy heart walked after my eyes,

Or if any spot adheres to my hands,

⁸Then ^flet me sow, and another eat;

Yes, let my harvest be ³rooted out.

⁹“If my heart has been enticed by a woman,

Or if I have lurked at my neighbor’s door,

¹⁰Then let my wife grind for ^ganother,

And let others bow down over her.

¹¹For that would be wickedness;

Yes, ^hit would be iniquity deserving of judgment.

¹²For that would be a fire that consumes to destruction,

And would root out all my increase.

¹³“If I have ⁱdespised the cause of my male or female servant

When they complained against me,

¹⁴What then shall I do when ^jGod rises up?

When He punishes, how shall I answer Him?

^15kDid not He who made me in the womb make them?

Did not the same One fashion us in the womb?

¹⁶“If I have kept the poor from their desire,

Or caused the eyes of the widow to ^lfail,

¹⁷Or eaten my morsel by myself,

So that the fatherless could not eat of it

¹⁸(But from my youth I reared him as a father,

And from my mother’s womb I guided ⁴the widow);

¹⁹If I have seen anyone perish for lack of clothing,

Or any poor man without covering;

²⁰If his ⁵heart has not ^mblessed me,

And if he was not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

²¹If I have raised my hand ⁿagainst the fatherless,

When I saw I had help in the gate;

²²Then let my arm fall from my shoulder,

Let my arm be torn from the socket.

²³For ^odestruction from God is a terror to me,

And because of His magnificence I cannot endure.