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