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

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

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

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

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

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 --

oh that I had one to hear me! (behold, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me); let the accuser write my indictment!

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

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

let briars grow instead of wheat, and stinkweed instead of barley." The words of Job are ended.

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

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

"If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, 'You are 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 its fruits without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life,

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

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

Doesn't he see my ways, and number all my steps?

"If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or 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 consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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