The Book of Job

Chapters:

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verse #1

“I made a covenant with my eyes; how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?

verse #2

For what is the portion from God above, and the heritage from the Almighty on high?

verse #3

Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?

verse #4

Doesn’t he see my ways, and count all my steps?

verse #5

“If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot has hurried to deceit

verse #6

(let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity);

verse #7

if my step has turned out of the way, if my heart walked after my eyes, if any defilement has stuck to my hands,

verse #8

then let me sow, and let another eat. Yes, let the produce of my field be rooted out.

verse #9

“If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbor’s door,

verse #10

then let my wife grind for another, and let others sleep with her.

verse #11

For that would be a heinous crime. Yes, it would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges,

verse #12

for it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase.

verse #13

“If I have despised the cause of my male servant or of my female servant, when they contended with me,

verse #14

what then will I do when God rises up? When he visits, what will I answer him?

verse #15

Didn’t he who made me in the womb make him? Didn’t one fashion us in the womb?

verse #16

“If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

verse #17

or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it

verse #18

(no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, I have guided her from my mother’s womb);

verse #19

if I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;

verse #20

if his heart hasn’t blessed me, if he hasn’t been warmed with my sheep’s fleece;

verse #21

if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate;

verse #22

then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from the bone.

verse #23

For calamity from God is a terror to me. Because of his majesty, I can do nothing.

verse #24

“If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, ‘You are my confidence;’

verse #25

If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;

verse #26

if I have seen the sun when it shined, or the moon moving in splendor,

verse #27

and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth;

verse #28

this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges, for I would have denied the God who is above.

verse #29

“If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him

verse #30

(I have certainly not allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse);

verse #31

if the men of my tent have not said, ‘Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?’

verse #32

(the foreigner has not camped in the street, but I have opened my doors to the traveler);

verse #33

if like Adam I have covered my transgressions, by hiding my iniquity in my heart,

verse #34

because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and didn’t go out of the door—

verse #35

oh that I had one to hear me! Behold, here is my signature! Let the Almighty answer me! Let the accuser write my indictment!

verse #36

Surely I would carry it on my shoulder, and I would bind it to me as a crown.

verse #37

I would declare to him the number of my steps. I would go near to him like a prince.

verse #38

If my land cries out against me, and its furrows weep together;

verse #39

if I have eaten its fruits without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life,

verse #40

let briers grow instead of wheat, and stinkweed instead of barley.” The words of Job are ended.

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