Job 31:1–23

I ^amade a covenant with mine ^beyes;

^cWhy then should ^ccI think upon a maid?

²For what ^dportion of God is there from above?

And what ^dinheritance of the Almighty from ^eon high?

³Is not destruction to the wicked?

And ^fa strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?

^4gDoth not he see my ways,

And ^hcount all my steps?

⁵If I have walked with vanity,

Or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;

⁶Let me be weighed in an even balance,

That God may know mine integrity.

⁷If my step hath turned out of the way,

And ⁱmine heart walked after mine eyes,

And if any ^kblot hath cleaved to my hands;

⁸Then ^llet me sow, and let another eat;

Yea, let my ^moffspring be rooted out.

⁹If ⁿmine heart have been deceived by a woman,

Or if ^oI have laid wait at my neighbour’s door;

¹⁰Then let my wife ^pgrind unto another,

And let ^qothers bow down upon her.

¹¹For this is a ^rheinous crime;

Yea, it is ^san iniquity ^tto be punished by the judges.

¹²For it is ^ua fire that consumeth to ^vdestruction,

And would root out all mine increase.

¹³If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant,

When they contended with me;

^14cWhat then shall I do when God riseth up?

And when he ^wvisiteth, ^xwhat shall I answer him?

¹⁵Did not he that made me in the womb make him?

And did not ^yone fashion us in the womb?

¹⁶If ^zI have withheld the poor from their desire,

Or have ^acaused the eyes of the widow to fail;

^17zOr have eaten my morsel myself alone,

And the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;

¹⁸(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father,

And I have ^bguided her from my mother’s womb;)

¹⁹If I have seen any ^cperish ^dfor want of clothing,

Or any poor ^dwithout covering;

²⁰If his loins have not ^eblessed me,

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

²¹If I have ^flift up my hand ^gagainst the fatherless,

When I saw my help in ^hthe gate:

²²Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade,

And mine arm be broken from the bone.

²³For ⁱdestruction from God was a ^kterror to me,

And by reason of his ^khighness I could not endure.