Thematic Bible
Job 31:1 (show verse)
I made a covenant with mine eyes, that I would not look upon a damsel.
Job 31:2 (show verse)
For how great a portion shall I have of God from above? And what inheritance from the Almighty on high?
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Job 31:3 (show verse)
As for the ungodly and he that joineth himself to the company of wicked doers: shall not destruction and misery come upon him?
Job 31:4 (show verse)
Doth not he see my ways, and tell all my goings?
Job 31:5 (show verse)
If I have cleaved unto vanity, or if my feet have run to deceive,
Job 31:6 (show verse)
let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may see my innocence.
Job 31:7 (show verse)
If so be that I have withdrawn my foot out of the right way, if my heart hath followed mine eyesight, if I have stained or defiled my hands,
No Themes for this verse.
Job 31:8 (show verse)
then shall I sow, and another eat; yea, my generation and posterity shall be clean rooted out.
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Job 31:9 (show verse)
"If my heart hath lusted after my neighbour's wife, or if I have laid wait at his door:
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Job 31:10 (show verse)
O then let my wife be another man's harlot and let others lie with her.
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Job 31:11 (show verse)
For this is a wickedness and sin, that is worthy to be punished;
Job 31:12 (show verse)
yea, a fire that utterly should consume, and root out all my substance.
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Job 31:13 (show verse)
Did I ever think scorn to do right unto my servants and maidens, when they had any matter against me?
Job 31:14 (show verse)
But seeing that God will sit in judgment, what shall I do? And for so much as he will needs visit me, what answer shall I give him?
Job 31:15 (show verse)
He that fashioned me in my mother's womb, made he not him also? Were we not both shapen alike in our mother's bodies?
Job 31:16 (show verse)
"When the poor desireth anything of me, have I denied it them? Have I caused the widow stand waiting for me in vain?
Job 31:17 (show verse)
Have I eaten my portion alone, that the fatherless hath had no part with me?
Job 31:18 (show verse)
For mercy grew up with me from my youth, and compassion from my mother's womb.
Job 31:19 (show verse)
Have I seen any man perish through nakedness and want of clothing? Or any poor man for lack of raiment,
Job 31:20 (show verse)
whose sides thanked me not, because he was warmed with the wool of my sheep?
Job 31:21 (show verse)
Did I ever lift up my hand to hurt the fatherless; yea, in the gates where I saw myself to be in authority?
Job 31:22 (show verse)
Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder, and mine arm holes be broken from the joints.
Job 31:23 (show verse)
For I have ever feared the vengeance and punishment of God, and knew very well that I was not able to bear his burden.
Job 31:24 (show verse)
"Have I put my trust in gold? Or, have I said to the finest gold of all, 'Thou art my confidence?'
Job 31:25 (show verse)
Have I rejoiced because my substance was great, and because my hand gat so much?
Job 31:26 (show verse)
Did I ever greatly regard the rising of the sun? Or, had I the going down of the moon in great reputation?
Job 31:27 (show verse)
Hath my heart meddled privily with any deceit? Or, did I ever kiss mine own hand?
Job 31:28 (show verse)
That were a wickedness worth to be punished, for then should I have denied the God that is above.
Job 31:29 (show verse)
Have I ever rejoiced at the hurt of mine enemy? Or was I ever glad, that any harm happened to him? Oh no.
Job 31:30 (show verse)
I never suffered my mouth to do such a sin, as to wish him evil.
Job 31:31 (show verse)
Yet they of mine own household say, 'Who shall let us to have our belly full of his flesh?'
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Job 31:32 (show verse)
I have not suffered a stranger to lie without, but opened my doors unto him.
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Job 31:33 (show verse)
"Have I kept secret my sin, and hid mine iniquity as Adam did?
Job 31:34 (show verse)
For if I had feared any great multitude of people, or if I had been despised of the simple; Oh then should I have been afraid. Thus have I quietly spent my life, and not gone out at the door.
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Job 31:35 (show verse)
O that I had one which would hear me. Lo, this is my cause: Let the almighty give me answer, and let him that is my contrary party, sue me with libel.
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Job 31:36 (show verse)
Then shall I take it upon my shoulder, and as a garland about my head.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 31:37 (show verse)
I have told the number of my goings, and delivered them unto him as to a prince.
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Job 31:38 (show verse)
But if cause be that my land cry against me, or that the furrows thereof make any complaint;
Job 31:39 (show verse)
if I have eaten the fruits thereof unpaid for, yea if I have grieved any of the plowmen;
Job 31:40 (show verse)
then let thistles grow instead of my wheat, and thorns for my barley."