- 1. I made a covenant with mine eyes; and how should I fix my regard upon a maid?
- 2. For what would have been [my] portion of +God from above, and what the heritage of the Almighty from on high?
- 3. Is not calamity for the unrighteous? and misfortune for the workers of iniquity?
- 4. Doth not he see my ways, and number all my steps?
- 5. If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot hath hasted to deceit,
- 6. (Let me be weighed in an even balance, and +God will take knowledge of my blamelessness;)
- 7. If my step have turned out of the way, and my heart followed mine eyes, and if any blot cleaveth to my hands;
- 8. Let me sow, and another eat; and let mine offspring be rooted out.
- 9. If my heart have been enticed unto a woman, so that I laid wait at my neighbour's door,
- 10. Let my wife grind for another, and let others bow down upon her.
- 11. For this is an infamy; yea, it is an iniquity [to be judged 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 bondman or of my bondmaid, when they contended with me,
- 14. What then should I do when �God riseth up? and if he visited, what should 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 caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
- 17. Or have eaten my morsel alone, so that the fatherless ate not thereof,
- 18. (For from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, and I have guided the [widow] from my mother's womb;)
- 19. If I have seen any perishing for want of clothing, or any needy without covering;
- 20. If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my lambs;
- 21. If I have lifted up my hand against an orphan, because I saw my help in the gate:
- 22. [Then] let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone!
- 23. For calamity from �God was a terror to me, and by reason of his excellency I was powerless.
- 24. If I have made gold my hope, or said to the fine gold, My confidence!
- 25. If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;
- 26. If I beheld the sun when it shone, or the moon walking in brightness,
- 27. And my heart have been secretly enticed, so that my mouth kissed my hand:
- 28. This also would be an iniquity for the judge, for I should have denied the �God who is above.
- 29. If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, and exulted when evil befell him;
- 30. (Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse;)
- 31. If the men of my tent said not, Who shall find one that hath not been satisfied with his meat? --
- 32. The stranger did not lodge without; I opened my doors to the pathway.
- 33. If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom,
- 34. Because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and went not out of the door, ...
- 35. Oh that I had one to hear me! Behold my signature: let the Almighty answer me! And let mine opponent write an accusation!
- 36. Would I not take it upon my shoulder? I would bind it on to me [as] a crown;
- 37. I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I come near to him.
- 38. If my land cry out against me, and its furrows weep together;
- 39. If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, and have tormented to death the souls of its owners:
- 40. Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and tares instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.
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