Job 31

^{Job 31:1} “I have made a covenant with my eyes. How then could I gaze with desire at a virgin?

^{Job 31:2} For what is the allotment of God from above, or the heritage from the Almighty on high?

^{Job 31:3} Does not disaster come to the unjust and calamity to the workers of iniquity?

^{Job 31:4} Does He not see my ways and count my every step?

^{Job 31:5} If I have walked in falsehood or my foot has rushed to deceit,

^{Job 31:6} let God weigh me with honest scales, that He may know my integrity.

^{Job 31:7} If my steps have turned from the path, if my heart has followed my eyes, or if impurity has stuck to my hands,

^{Job 31:8} then may another eat what I have sown, and may my crops be uprooted.

^{Job 31:9} If my heart has been enticed by my neighbor’s wife, or I have lurked at his door,

^{Job 31:10} then may my own wife grind grain for another, and may other men sleep with her.

^{Job 31:11} For that would be a heinous crime, an iniquity to be judged.

^{Job 31:12} For it is a fire that burns down to Abaddon; it would root out my entire harvest.

^{Job 31:13} If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or maidservant when they made a complaint against me,

^{Job 31:14} what will I do when God rises to judge? How will I answer when called to account?

^{Job 31:15} Did not He who made me in the womb also make them? Did not the same One form us in the womb?

^{Job 31:16} If I have denied the desires of the poor or allowed the widow’s eyes to fail,

^{Job 31:17} if I have eaten my morsel alone, not sharing it with the fatherless—

^{Job 31:18} though from my youth I reared him as would a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow—

^{Job 31:19} if I have seen one perish for lack of clothing, or a needy man without a cloak,

^{Job 31:20} if his heart has not blessed me for warming him with the fleece of my sheep,

^{Job 31:21} if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless because I saw that I had support in the gate,

^{Job 31:22} then may my arm fall from my shoulder and be torn from its socket.

^{Job 31:23} For calamity from God terrifies me, and His splendor I cannot overpower.

^{Job 31:24} If I have put my trust in gold or called pure gold my security,

^{Job 31:25} if I have rejoiced in my great wealth because my hand had gained so much,

^{Job 31:26} if I have beheld the sun in its radiance or the moon moving in splendor,

^{Job 31:27} so that my heart was secretly enticed and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth,

^{Job 31:28} this would also be an iniquity to be judged, for I would have denied God on high.

^{Job 31:29} If I have rejoiced in my enemy’s ruin, or exulted when evil befell him—

^{Job 31:30} I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking for his life with a curse—

^{Job 31:31} if the men of my house have not said, ‘Who is there who has not had his fill?’—

^{Job 31:32} but no stranger had to lodge on the street, for my door has been open to the traveler—

^{Job 31:33} if I have covered my transgressions like Adam by hiding my guilt in my heart,

^{Job 31:34} because I greatly feared the crowds and the contempt of the clans terrified me, so that I kept silent and would not go outside—

^{Job 31:35} (Oh, that I had one to hear me! Here is my signature. Let the Almighty answer me; let my accuser compose an indictment.

^{Job 31:36} Surely I would carry it on my shoulder and wear it like a crown.

^{Job 31:37} I would give account of all my steps; I would approach Him like a prince.)—

^{Job 31:38} if my land cries out against me and its furrows weep together,

^{Job 31:39} if I have devoured its produce without payment or broken the spirit of its tenants,

^{Job 31:40} then let briers grow instead of wheat and stinkweed instead of barley.” Thus conclude the words of Job.