1 I made a covenant with my eyes; why then should I think on a maid? AKJV — Job 31:1
2 For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high? AKJV — Job 31:2
3 Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity? AKJV — Job 31:3
4 Does not he see my ways, and count all my steps? AKJV — Job 31:4
5 If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot has hurried to deceit; AKJV — Job 31:5
6 Let me be weighed in an even balance that God may know my integrity. AKJV — Job 31:6
7 If my step has turned out of the way, and my heart walked after my eyes, and if any blot has stuck to my hands; AKJV — Job 31:7
8 Then let me sow, and let another eat; yes, let my offspring be rooted out. AKJV — Job 31:8
9 If my heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbor’ door; AKJV — Job 31:9
10 Then let my wife grind to another, and let others bow down on her. AKJV — Job 31:10
11 For this is an heinous crime; yes, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges. AKJV — Job 31:11
12 For it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase. AKJV — Job 31:12
13 If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me; AKJV — Job 31:13
14 What then shall I do when God rises up? and when he visits, what shall I answer him? AKJV — Job 31:14
15 Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb? AKJV — Job 31:15
16 If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail; AKJV — Job 31:16
17 Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless has not eaten thereof; AKJV — Job 31:17
18 (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother’ womb;) AKJV — Job 31:18
19 If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering; AKJV — Job 31:19
20 If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep; AKJV — Job 31:20
21 If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate: AKJV — Job 31:21
22 Then let my arm fall from my shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from the bone. AKJV — Job 31:22
23 For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure. AKJV — Job 31:23
24 If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, You are my confidence; AKJV — Job 31:24
25 If I rejoice because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much; AKJV — Job 31:25
26 If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness; AKJV — Job 31:26
27 And my heart has been secretly enticed, or my mouth has kissed my hand: AKJV — Job 31:27
28 This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above. AKJV — Job 31:28
29 If I rejoice at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him: AKJV — Job 31:29
30 Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul. AKJV — Job 31:30
31 If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied. AKJV — Job 31:31
32 The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the travelers. AKJV — Job 31:32
33 If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom: AKJV — Job 31:33
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? AKJV — Job 31:34
35 Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that my adversary had written a book. AKJV — Job 31:35
36 Surely I would take it on my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me. AKJV — Job 31:36
37 I would declare to him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near to him. AKJV — Job 31:37
38 If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain; AKJV — Job 31:38
39 If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life: AKJV — Job 31:39
40 Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended. AKJV — Job 31:40