Job 31

NEW AMERICAN BIBLE	KING JAMES BIBLE
1 If I have made an agreement with my eyes and entertained any thoughts against a maiden;	1 I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?
2 But what is man's lot from God above, his inheritance from the Almighty on high?	2 For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?
3 Is it not calamity for the unrighteous, and woe for evildoers?	3 Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?
4 Does he not see my ways, and number all my steps?	4 Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?
5 If I have walked in falsehood and my foot has hastened to deceit;	5 If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;
6 Let God weigh me in the scales of justice; thus will he know my innocence!	6 Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity.
7 If my steps have turned out of the way, and my heart has followed my eyes, or any stain clings to my hands,	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 may I sow, but another eat of it, or may my planting be rooted up!	8 Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.
9 If my heart has been enticed toward a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbor's door;	9 If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour's door;
10 Then may my wife grind for another, and may others cohabit with her!	10 Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.
11 For that would be heinous, a crime to be condemned;	11 For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.
12 A fire that should burn down to the abyss till it consumed all my possessions to the roots.	12 For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.
13 Had I refused justice to my manservant or to my maid, when they had a claim against me,	13 If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;
14 What then should I do when God rose up; what could I answer when he demanded an account?	14 What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?
15 Did not he who made me in the womb make him? Did not the same One fashion us before our birth?	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 denied anything to the poor, or allowed the eyes of the widow to languish	16 If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
17 While I ate my portion alone, with no share in it for the fatherless,	17 Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;
18 Though like a father God has reared me from my youth, guiding me even from my mother's womb--	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 a wanderer without clothing, or a poor man without covering,	19 If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;
20 Whose limbs have not blessed me when warmed with the fleece of my sheep;	20 If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
21 If I have raised my hand against the innocent because I saw that I had supporters at the gate--	21 If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:
22 Then may my arm fall from the shoulder, my forearm be broken at the elbow!	22 Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.
23 For the dread of God will be upon me, and his majesty will overpower me.	23 For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.
24 Had I put my trust in gold or called fine gold my security;	24 If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;
25 Or had I rejoiced that my wealth was great, or that my hand had acquired abundance--	25 If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much;
26 Had I looked upon the sun as it shone, or the moon in the splendor of its progress,	26 If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;
27 And had my heart been secretly enticed to waft them a kiss with my hand;	27 And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand:
28 This too would be a crime for condemnation, for I should have denied God above.	28 This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.
29 Had I rejoiced at the destruction of my enemy or exulted when evil fell upon him,	29 If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:
30 Even though I had not suffered my mouth to sin by uttering a curse against his life--	30 Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.
31 Had not the men of my tent exclaimed, "Who has not been fed with his meat!"	31 If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.
32 Because no stranger lodged in the street, but I opened my door to wayfarers--	32 The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller.
33 Had I, out of human weakness, hidden my sins and buried my guilt in my bosom	33 If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:
34 Because I feared the noisy multitude and the scorn of the tribes terrified me- then I should have remained silent, and not come out of doors!	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?
35 Oh, that I had one to hear my case, and that my accuser would write out his indictment!	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.
36 Surely, I should wear it on my shoulder or put it on me like a diadem;	36 Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.
37 Of all my steps I should give him an account; like a prince I should present myself before him. This is my final plea; let the Almighty answer me! The words of Job are ended.	37 I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.
38 If my land has cried out against me till its very furrows complained;	38 If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;
39 If I have eaten its produce without payment and grieved the hearts of its tenants;	39 If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:
40 Then let the thistles grow instead of wheat and noxious weeds instead of barley!	40 Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.