- 1. I made a couenant with mine eyes; why then should I thinke vpon a mayd?
- 2. For what portion of God is there from aboue? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?
- 3. Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquitie?
- 4. Doeth not he see my wayes, and count all my steps?
- 5. If I haue walked with vanitie, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;
- 6. Let me bee weighed in an euen ballance, that God may know mine integritie.
- 7. If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaued to my hands:
- 8. Then let mee sow, and let another eate, yea let my off-spring be rooted out.
- 9. If mine heart haue bene deceiued by a woman, or if I haue layde wait at my neighbours doore:
- 10. Then let my wife grind vnto another, and let others bow downe vpon her.
- 11. For this is an heinous crime, yea, it is an iniquitie to bee punished by the Iudges.
- 12. For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would roote out all mine encrease.
- 13. If I did despise the cause of my man-seruant, or of my mayd-seruant, when they contended with me:
- 14. What then shall I do, when God riseth vp? and when hee visiteth, what shall I answere him?
- 15. Did not hee that made mee in the wombe, make him? and did not one fashion vs in the wombe?
- 16. If I haue withhelde the poore from their desire, or haue caused the eyes of the widow to faile:
- 17. Or haue eaten my morsell my selfe alone, and the fatherlesse hath not eaten thereof:
- 18. (For from my youth hee was brought vp with me as with a father, and I haue guided her from my mothers wombe.)
- 19. If I haue seene any perish for want of cloathing, or any poore without couering:
- 20. If his loynes haue not blessed me, and if hee were not warmed with the fleece of my sheepe:
- 21. If I haue lift vp my hand against the fatherlesse, when I saw my helpe in the gate:
- 22. Then let mine arme fall from my shoulder-blade, and mine arme be broken from the bone.
- 23. For destruction from God was a terrour to mee: and by reason of his highnesse, I could not endure.
- 24. If I haue made golde my hope, or haue said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence:
- 25. If I reioyced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much:
- 26. If I beheld the Sunne when it shined, or the Moone walking in brightnesse:
- 27. And my heart hath bene secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand:
- 28. This also were an iniquitie to be punished by the Iudge: For I should haue denied the God that is aboue.
- 29. If I reioyced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lift vp my selfe when euill found him:
- 30. (Neither haue I suffered my mouth to sinne by wishing a curse to his soule.)
- 31. If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! wee cannot be satisfied.
- 32. The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doores to the trauailer.
- 33. If I couered my transgressions, as Adam: by hiding mine iniquitie in my bosome:
- 34. Did I feare a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrifie me: that I kept silence, and went not out of the doore?
- 35. O that one would heare me! beholde, my desire is, that the Almightie would answere me, and that mine aduersary had written a booke.
- 36. Surely I would take it vpon my shoulder, and bind it as a crowne to me.
- 37. I would declare vnto him the number of my steps, as a prince would I goe neere vnto him.
- 38. If my land cry against me, or that the furrowes likewise thereof complaine:
- 39. If I haue eaten the fruits thereof without money, or haue caused the owners thereof to loose their life:
- 40. Let thistles grow in stead of wheat, and cockle in stead of barley. The words of Iob are ended.
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