Job 31. RIGHTEOUSNESS 7 If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands, 8 then let me sow and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out. 9 “If mine heart has been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbor’s door, 10 then let my wife grind for another, and let others bow down upon her. 11 For this is a heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges. 12 For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase. 13 “If I have despised the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant when they contended with me, 14 what then shall I do when God riseth up? And when He visiteth, what shall I answer Him? 15 Did not He that made me in the womb make him? And did not One fashion us in the womb? 16 “If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail; 17 or 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 guided her from my mother’s womb); 19 if I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering; 20 if his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep; 21 if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate” 22 then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone. 23 For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of His highness I could not endure. 24 “If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, ‘Thou art my confidence’; 25 if I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much; 26 if I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness, 27 and my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand— 28 this also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge, for I should have denied the God that is above. 29 “If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him, 30 neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul. 31 If the men of my tent said not, ‘Oh that we had of his flesh! We cannot be satisfied’. 32 The stranger did not lodge in the street, but I opened my doors to the traveler. 33 If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom, 34 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?
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