# Job 31 
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1. “I have made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I gaze at a virgin? 
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2. What would be my portion from God above and my heritage from the Almighty on high? 
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3. Is not calamity for the unrighteous, and disaster for the workers of iniquity? 
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4. Does not he see my ways and number all my steps? 
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5. “If I have walked with falsehood and my foot has hastened to deceit; 
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6. (Let me be weighed in a just balance, and let God know my integrity!) 
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7. if my step has turned aside from the way and my heart has gone after my eyes, and if any spot has stuck to my hands, 
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8. then let me sow, and another eat, and let what grows for me be rooted out. 
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9. “If my heart has been enticed toward a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbor’s door, 
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10. then let my wife grind for another, and let others bow down on her. 
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11. For that would be a heinous crime; that would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges; 
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12. for that would be a fire that consumes as far as Abaddon, and it would burn to the root all my increase. 
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13. “If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or my maidservant, when they brought a complaint against me, 
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14. what then shall I do when God rises up? When he makes inquiry, what shall I answer him? 
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15. Did not he who made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb? 
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16. “If I have withheld anything that the poor desired, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail, 
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17. or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it 
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18. (for from my youth the fatherless grew up with me as with a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow), 
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19. if I have seen anyone perish for lack of clothing, or the needy without covering, 
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20. if his body has not blessed me, and if he was not warmed with the fleece of my sheep, 
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21. if I have raised my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate, 
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22. then let my shoulder blade fall from my shoulder, and let my arm be broken from its socket. 
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23. For I was in terror of calamity from God, and I could not have faced his majesty. 
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24. “If I have made gold my trust or called fine gold my confidence, 
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25. if I have rejoiced because my wealth was abundant or because my hand had found much, 
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26. if I have looked at the sun when it shone, or the moon moving in splendor, 
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27. and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my mouth has kissed my hand, 
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28. this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges, for I would have been false to God above. 
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29. “If I have rejoiced at the ruin of him who hated me, or exulted when evil overtook him 
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30. (I have not let my mouth sin by asking for his life with a curse), 
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31. if the men of my tent have not said, ‘Who is there that has not been filled with his meat?’ 
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32. (the sojourner has not lodged in the street; I have opened my doors to the traveler), 
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33. if I have concealed my transgressions as others do by hiding my iniquity in my heart, 
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34. because I stood in great fear of the multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and did not go out of doors— 
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35. Oh, that I had one to hear me! (Here is my signature! Let the Almighty answer me!) Oh, that I had the indictment written by my adversary! 
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36. Surely I would carry it on my shoulder; I would bind it on me as a crown; 
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37. I would give him an account of all my steps; like a prince I would approach him. 
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38. “If my land has cried out against me and its furrows have wept together, 
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39. if I have eaten its yield without payment and made its owners breathe their last, 
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40. let thorns grow instead of wheat, and foul weeds instead of barley.” The words of Job are ended. 

(ESV)