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Read Job 31

World English Bible · 40 verses

¹ “I made a covenant with my eyes; how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
² For what is the portion from God above, and the heritage from the Almighty on high?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
³ Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁴ Doesn’t he see my ways, and count all my steps?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁵ “If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot has hurried to deceitThis verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁶ (let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity);This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁷ if my step has turned out of the way, if my heart walked after my eyes, if any defilement has stuck to my hands,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁸ then let me sow, and let another eat. Yes, let the produce of my field be rooted out.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁹ “If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbor’s door,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁰ then let my wife grind for another, and let others sleep with her.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹¹ For that would be a heinous crime. Yes, it would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹² for it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹³ “If I have despised the cause of my male servant or of my female servant, when they contended with me,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁴ what then will I do when God rises up? When he visits, what will I answer him?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁵ Didn’t he who made me in the womb make him? Didn’t one fashion us in the womb?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁶ “If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁷ or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of itThis verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁸ (no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, I have guided her from my mother’s womb);This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁹ if I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²⁰ if his heart hasn’t blessed me, if he hasn’t been warmed with my sheep’s fleece;This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²¹ if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate;This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²² then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from the bone.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²³ For calamity from God is a terror to me. Because of his majesty, I can do nothing.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²⁴ “If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, ‘You are my confidence;’This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²⁵ If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²⁶ if I have seen the sun when it shined, or the moon moving in splendor,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²⁷ and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth;This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²⁸ this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges, for I would have denied the God who is above.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²⁹ “If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found himThis verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
³⁰ (I have certainly not allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse);This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
³¹ if the men of my tent have not said, ‘Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?’This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
³² (the foreigner has not camped in the street, but I have opened my doors to the traveler);This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
³³ if like Adam I have covered my transgressions, by hiding my iniquity in my heart,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
³⁴ 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—This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
³⁵ oh that I had one to hear me! Behold, here is my signature! Let the Almighty answer me! Let the accuser write my indictment!This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
³⁶ Surely I would carry it on my shoulder, and I would bind it to me as a crown.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
³⁷ I would declare to him the number of my steps. I would go near to him like a prince.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
³⁸ If my land cries out against me, and its furrows weep together;This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
³⁹ if I have eaten its fruits without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁴⁰ let briers grow instead of wheat, and stinkweed instead of barley.” The words of Job are ended.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.

Scripture: World English Bible, public domain, eBible.org