1I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a
2For what portion of God is there from above? and what
3Is not destruction to
5If I have
6Let me be weighed in an even balance that God may know mine integrity.
7If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked
8Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.
9If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid
10Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.
11For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.
12For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.
13If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my
14What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?
15Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one
16If I have withheld the poor from their
17Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten
18(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a
19If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;
20If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with
21If I have lifted up my hand against the
22Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.
23For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.
24If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou
25If I rejoice because my wealth was great, and
26If I beheld the sun when it
27And my heart hath
28This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.
29If I rejoice at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted
30Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.
31If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.
32The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller.
33If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity
34Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the
35Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.
36Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.
37I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.
38If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof
39If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or
40Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.