I Made a covenant with my eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?

The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveler.

If I have covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom:

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

If my land crieth against me, or its furrows likewise complain;

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?

Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that my adversary had written a book.

Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?

If I have beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;

Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.

If I despised the cause of my man-servant or of my maid-servant, when they contended with me;

Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.

If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;

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

If I have eaten the fruits of it without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life:

If my heart hath been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbor's door;

For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?

Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?

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

Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity.

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

Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.

If his loins have not blessed me, and if he hath not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?

Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten of it;

If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;

If my step hath turned out of the way, and my heart walked after my eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to my hands;

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

And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand:

For this is a hainous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.

Then let my wife grind to another, and let others bow down upon her.

If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;

For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.

Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?

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

If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:

(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)

If the men of my tabernacle have not said, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.

This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.

Then let me sow, and let another eat; yes, let my offspring be rooted out.