Job 31

KING JAMES BIBLE	NEW JERUSALEM
1 I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?	1 I had made an agreement with my eyes not to linger on any virgin.
2 For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?	2 Now what portion does God al ot from above, what fate does Shaddai apportion from his heaven-
3 Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?	3 if not the disasters appropriate to the wicked and the calamities fit for evil-doers?
4 Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?	4 But surely he sees how I behave, does he not count all my steps?
5 If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;	5 Have I been a fel ow-travel er with falsehood, or hastened my steps towards deceit?
6 Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity.	6 Let him weigh me on accurate scales: then he, God, will recognise my integrity!
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;	7 If my feet have wandered from the rightful path, or if my eyes have led my heart astray, or if my handsare smirched with any stain,
8 Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.	8 let someone else eat what I have sown and let my young shoots all be rooted out.
9 If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour's door;	9 If my heart has been seduced by a woman, or if I have lurked at my neighbour's door,
10 Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.	10 let my wife go and grind for someone else, let others have intercourse with her!
11 For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.	11 For I would have committed a sin of lust, a crime punishable by the law,
12 For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.	12 a fire, indeed, burning al to Perdition, which would have devoured my whole revenue.
13 If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;	13 If I have ever infringed the rights of slave or slave-girl in legal actions against me-
14 What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?	14 what shal I do, when God stands up? What shal I say, when he holds his assize?
15 Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?	15 Did he not create them in the womb like me, the same God forming us in the womb?
16 If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;	16 Have I been insensible to the needs of the poor, or let a widow's eyes grow dim?
17 Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;	17 Have I eaten my bit of bread on my own without sharing it with the orphan?
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;)	18 I, whom God has fostered father-like from childhood, and guided since I left my mother's womb,
19 If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;	19 have I ever seen a wretch in need of clothing, or the poor with nothing to wear,
20 If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;	20 without his having cause to bless me from his heart, as he felt the warmth of the fleece from mylambs?
21 If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:	21 Have I raised my hand against an orphan, presuming on my credit at the gate?
22 Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.	22 If so, let my shoulder fal from its socket, let my arm break off at the elbow!
23 For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.	23 For the terror of God would fal on me and I could not then stand my ground before his majesty.
24 If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;	24 Have I put my faith in gold, saying to fine gold, 'Ah, my security'?
25 If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much;	25 Have I ever gloated over my great wealth, or the riches that my hands have won?
26 If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;	26 Or has the sight of the sun in its glory, or the glow of the moon as it walked the sky,
27 And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand:	27 secretly stolen my heart, so that I blew them a kiss?
28 This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.	28 That too would be a criminal offence, to have denied the supreme God.
29 If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:	29 Have I rejoiced at my enemy's misfortune, or exulted when disaster overtook him? -
30 Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.	30 I, who would not allow my tongue to sin or to lay his life under a curse.
31 If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.	31 The people of my tent, did they not say, 'Will anyone name a person whom he has not fil ed withmeat?'
32 The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller.	32 No stranger ever had to sleep outside, my door was always open to the traveller.
33 If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:	33 Have I ever concealed my transgression from others or kept my fault a secret in my breast?
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?	34 Have I ever stood in fear of common gossip, or dreaded any family's contempt, and so kept quiet, notventuring out of doors?
35 Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.	35 Will no one give me a hearing? I have said my last word; now let Shaddai reply! When my adversaryhas drafted his writ against me
36 Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.	36 I shall wear it on my shoulder, and bind it round my head like a royal turban.
37 I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.	37 I shall give him an account of my every step and go as boldly as a prince to meet him.End of thewords of Job.
38 If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;	38 If my land cries for vengeance against me and its furrows weep in concert,
39 If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:	39 if I have eaten its produce without paying, and caused the death of its owners,
40 Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.	40 let brambles grow instead of wheat, rank weeds instead of barley!