1I made a covenant with mine eyes: why then should I think on a maid?
2For what portion should I have of God from above? and what inheritance of the almighty from on high?
3Is not destruction to the wicked, and strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?
4Doth not he behold my ways, and tell all my steps?
5If I have walked in vanity, or if my foot hath made haste to deceit?
6Let God weigh me in the just balance, and he shall know my uprightness.
7If my step hath turned out of the way, or mine heart hath walked after mine eye, or if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands,
8Let me sow, and let another eat: yea, let my plants be rooted out.
9If mine heart hath been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at the door of my neighbor,
10Let my wife grind unto another man, and let other men bow down upon her.
11For this is a wickedness, and iniquity to be condemned.
12Yea, this is a fire that shall devour to destruction, and which shall root out all my increase.
13If I did contemn the judgment of my servant, and of my maid, when they did contend with me,
14What then shall I do when God standeth up? and when he shall visit me, what shall I answer?
15He that hath made me in the womb, hath he not made him? hath not he alone fashioned us in the womb?
16If I restrained the poor of their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
17Or have eaten my morsels alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof,
18(For from my youth hath he grown up with me as with a father, and from my mother’s womb have I been a guide unto her.)
19If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering,
20If his loins have not blessed me, because he was warmed with the fleece of my sheep,
21If I have lifted up mine hand against the fatherless, when I saw that I might help him in the gate,
22Let mine arm fall from my shoulder, and mine arm be broken from the bone.
23For God’s punishment was fearful unto me, and I could not be delivered from his Highness.
24If I made gold mine hope, or have said to the wedge of gold, Thou art my confidence,
25If I rejoiced because my substance was great, or because mine hand had gotten much,
26If I did behold the sun, when it shined, or the moon walking in her brightness,
27If mine heart did flatter me in secret, or if my mouth did kiss mine hand,
28(This also had been an iniquity to be condemned: for I had denied the God above.)
29If I rejoiced at his destruction that hated me, or was moved to joy when evil came upon him,
30Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin, by wishing a curse unto his soul.
31Did not the men of my Tabernacle say, Who shall give us of his flesh? we cannot be satisfied.
32The stranger did not lodge in the street, but I opened my doors unto him, that went by the way.
33If I have hid my sins, as Adam, concealing mine iniquity in my bosom,
34Though I could have made afraid a great multitude, yet the most contemptible of the families did fear me: so I kept silence, and went not out of the door.
35Oh that I had some to hear me! behold my sign that the Almighty will witness for me: though mine adversary should write a book against me,
36Would not I take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown unto me?
37I will tell him the number of my goings, and go unto him as to a prince.
38If my land cry against me, or the furrows thereof complain together,
39If I have eaten the fruits thereof without silver: or if I have grieved the souls of the masters thereof,
40Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle in the stead of barley. THE WORDS OF JOB ARE ENDED.