Job’s Final Appeal

31 “I have made a covenant with my beyes;

how then could I gaze at a virgin?

2  What would be cmy portion from God above

and cmy heritage from the Almighty on high?

3  Is not calamity for the unrighteous,

and disaster for the workers of iniquity?

4  dDoes not he see my ways

and enumber all my steps?

5  “If I have walked with falsehood

and my foot has hastened to deceit;

6  (Let me be fweighed in a just balance,

and let God know my integrity!)

7  if my step has turned aside from the way

and gmy heart has gone after my eyes,

and if any hspot has stuck to my hands,

8  then let me isow, and another eat,

and let what grows for me1 be rooted out.

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

and I have jlain in wait at my neighbor’s door,

10  then let my wife kgrind for another,

and let others lbow down on her.

11  For that would be a heinous crime;

that would be an iniquity mto be punished by the judges;

12  for that would be a fire nthat consumes as far as Abaddon,

and it would burn to the root all my increase.