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Job 31 📜 📕 ↷
Job's Final Appeal
1 I have made a covenant with mine eyes, that I would not so much as think of a virgin.📜💬📚
2 For what part should God from above have in me, and inheritance the Omnipotent from on high?📜💬📚
3 Is there not perdition to the wicked man, and alienation to them that work injustice?📜💬📚
4 Doth not he consider my ways, and number all my steps?📜💬📚
5 If I have walked in vanity, and my foot hath hastened in guile:📜💬📚
6 Let him weigh me in a just balance, and let God know my simplicity.📜💬📚
7 If my step have declined out of the way, and if my heart hath followed mine eyes, and if spot hath cleaved to my hands:📜💬📚
8 Let me sow, and let an other eat it: and let my progeny be plucked up by the roots.📜💬📚
9 If my heart hath been deceived upon a woman, and if I have lien in wait at my friend's door:📜💬📚
10 Let my wife be the harlot of an other man, and let other men lie with her.📜💬📚
11 For this is a heinous thing, and most great iniquity.📜💬📚
12 It is a fire devouring even to perdition, and rooting up all things that spring.📜💬📚
13 If I have contemned to abide judgment with my man-servant, & my maid-servant, when they had any controversy against me.📜💬📚
14 For what shall I do when God shall rise to judge? And when he shall ask, what shall I answer him?📜💬📚
15 Did not he make me in the womb that made him also: & did not one form me in the matrice?📜💬📚
16 If I have denied to the poor, that which they would, & have made the eyes of the widow to expect:📜💬📚
17 If I have eaten my morsel alone, and the pupil hath not eaten thereof with me📜💬📚
18 (Because from mine infancy mercy hath grown with me: and from my mother's womb it came forth with me.)📜💬📚
19 If I have despised him that perisheth, for that he had not clothing, and the poor man without wherewithal to cover him:📜💬📚
20 If his sides have not blessed me, and he was not warmed with the fleece of my sheep:📜💬📚
21 If I have lifted up my hand over the pupil, yea when I saw my self in the gate the superior:📜💬📚
22 Let my shoulder fall from his juncture, and let my arm with his bones be broken.📜💬📚
23 For I have always feared God as waves swelling upon me, & his weight I could not bear.📜💬📚
24 If I have thought gold my strength, and have said to fine gold: My confidence.📜💬📚
25 If I have rejoiced upon my great riches, and because my hand found many things.📜💬📚
26 If I saw the sun when it shined, and the moon going clearly:📜💬📚
27 And my heart in secret rejoiced, and I kissed my hand with my mouth.📜💬📚
28 Which is most great iniquity, and a denial against God the most high?📜💬📚
29 If I have been glad of his fall that hated me, and have rejoiced that evil had found him.📜💬📚
30 For I have not given my throat to sin, that cursing I wished his soul.📜💬📚
31 If the men of my tabernacle have not said: Who will give of his flesh that we may be filled?📜💬📚
32 The stranger tarried not without, my door was open to the wayfaring man.📜💬📚
33 If as man I have hid my sin, and have concealed my iniquity in my bosom.📜💬📚
34 If I have been afraid at a very great multitude, and the contempt of kinsmen hath terrified me: and I have not rather held my peace, & not gone out of the door.📜💬📚
35 Who will grant me an hearer, that the Omnipotent would hear my desire: and that himself that judgeth would write a book.📜💬📚
36 That I may carry it on my shoulder, and put it about me as a crown?📜💬📚
37 At every step of mine I will pronounce it, and as to the Prince I will offer it.📜💬📚
38 If my land cry against me, & with it the furrows thereof lament:📜💬📚
39 If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, and have afflicted the soul of the tillers thereof.📜💬📚
40 For wheat let the briar grow to me, and for barley the thorn.📜💬📚
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