Book of Job, Chapter 31
Chapter 31 of Job
how then could I look upon a virgin?
and my heritage from the Almighty on high?
and disaster the workers of iniquity?
and number all my steps?
and my foot has hastened to deceit;
and let God know my integrity!)
and my heart has gone after my eyes,
and if any spot has cleaved to my hands;
and let what grows for me be rooted out.
and I have lain in wait at my neighbor’s door;
and let others bow down upon her.
that would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges;
and it would burn to the root all my increase.
when they brought a complaint against me;
When he makes inquiry, what shall I answer him?
And did not one fashion us in the womb?
or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
and the fatherless has not eaten of it
and from his mother’s womb I guided him[a]);
or a poor man without covering;
and if he was not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
because I saw help in the gate;
and let my arm be broken from its socket.
and I could not have faced his majesty.
or called fine gold my confidence;
or because my hand had gotten much;
or the moon moving in splendor,
and my mouth has kissed my hand;
for I should have been false to God above.
or exulted when evil overtook him
by asking for his life with a curse);
‘Who is there that has not been filled with his meat?’
I have opened my doors to the wayfarer);
by hiding my iniquity in my bosom,
and the contempt of families terrified me,
so that I kept silence, and did not go out of doors—
(Here is my signature! let the Almighty answer me!)
Oh, that I had the indictment written by my adversary!
I would bind it on me as a crown;
like a prince I would approach him.
and its furrows have wept together;
and caused the death of its owners;
and foul weeds instead of barley.”
¶ The words of Job are ended.FOOTNOTES
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