Thematic Bible
Job 31:1 (show verse)
I made a covenant with my eyes; why then should I look upon a maid?
Job 31:2 (show verse)
For what reward would God give me from above and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?
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Job 31:3 (show verse)
Is there no destruction for the wicked? And banishment for the workers of iniquity?
Job 31:4 (show verse)
Does he not see my ways and count all my steps?
Job 31:5 (show verse)
If I have walked with falsehood or if my foot has hastened to deceit,
Job 31:6 (show verse)
let me be weighed in a just balance, that God may know my integrity.
Job 31:7 (show verse)
If my step has turned out of the way and my heart walked after my eyes and if any blot has cleaved to my hands,
No Themes for this verse.
Job 31:8 (show verse)
then let me sow, and let another eat, and let my offspring be rooted out.
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Job 31:9 (show verse)
If my heart has been deceived regarding a woman, or if I have laid in wait at my neighbour's door,
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Job 31:10 (show verse)
then let my wife grind for another, and let others bow down upon her.
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Job 31:11 (show verse)
For this is lewdness and iniquity that is proven.
Job 31:12 (show verse)
For it is a fire that consumes unto hell and would root out all my increase.
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Job 31:13 (show verse)
If I had despised the right of my manslave or of my maidslave, when they contended with me;
Job 31:14 (show verse)
what then would I do when God rises up? And when he visits, what would I answer him?
Job 31:15 (show verse)
Did not he that made me in the belly also make him? And did not the same one fashion us in the womb?
Job 31:16 (show verse)
If I have disturbed the desire of the poor or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
Job 31:17 (show verse)
or have eaten my morsel alone and the fatherless has not eaten thereof;
Job 31:18 (show verse)
(for from my youth the fatherless was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided the widow from my mother's womb)
Job 31:19 (show verse)
if I have seen any perish for want of clothing or any needy without a covering;
Job 31:20 (show verse)
if his loins have not blessed me and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
Job 31:21 (show verse)
if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, even when I saw that they would all help me in the gate;
Job 31:22 (show verse)
then let my back fall from my shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from its joint.
Job 31:23 (show verse)
For I feared destruction from God, against whose highness I could have no power.
Job 31:24 (show verse)
If I have made gold my hope or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;
Job 31:25 (show verse)
if I rejoiced because my wealth was being multiplied, and because my hand had gotten much;
Job 31:26 (show verse)
if I beheld the sun when it shone or the moon walking in beauty;
Job 31:27 (show verse)
and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my mouth kissed my hand;
Job 31:28 (show verse)
this would also be a proven iniquity; for I should have denied the God that is sovereign.
Job 31:29 (show verse)
If I rejoiced at the destruction of the one that hated me or lifted up myself when evil found him;
Job 31:30 (show verse)
for I have never even suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse upon his soul;
Job 31:31 (show verse)
when the servants of my tent said, Oh that we had of his flesh! We would never be satisfied.
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Job 31:32 (show verse)
The stranger did not lodge in the street, but I opened my doors to the traveller.
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Job 31:33 (show verse)
If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom;
Job 31:34 (show verse)
if I feared a great multitude or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and did not go out of the door?
No Themes for this verse.
Job 31:35 (show verse)
Oh that someone would hear me! Behold, my mark is, that the Almighty will testify for me, even though my adversary had written down the charges.
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Job 31:36 (show verse)
Surely I would take it upon my shoulder and bind it as a crown to me.
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Job 31:37 (show verse)
I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince I would go near unto him.
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Job 31:38 (show verse)
If my land cries against me and all its furrows likewise complain;
Job 31:39 (show verse)
if I ate of its strength without money or have afflicted the soul of its owners;
Job 31:40 (show verse)
let thistles grow up unto me instead of wheat and stinkweed instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.