Jó 31

¹ I made a covenant with my eyes; How then should I look at a virgin?

² For what is the portion from God above, And the heritage from the Almighty on high?

³ Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, And disaster to the workers of iniquity?

⁴ Doesn't he see my ways, And number all my steps?

⁵ If I have walked with falsehood, And my foot has hurried to deceit

⁶ (Let me be weighed in an even balance, That God may know my integrity);

⁷ If my step has turned out of the way, And my heart walked after my eyes, And if any spot has stuck to my hands:

⁸ Then let me sow, and let another eat; Yes, let the produce of my field be rooted out.

⁹ If my heart has been enticed to a woman, And I have laid wait at my fellow man's door;

¹⁰ Then let my wife grind to another, And let others have sex with her.

¹¹ For that were a heinous crime; Yes, it were an iniquity to be punished by the judges:

¹² For it is a fire that consumes to Destruction, And would root out all my increase.

¹³ If I have despised the cause of my male slave or of my female slave, When they contended with me;

¹⁴ What then shall I do when God rises up? And when he visits, what shall I answer him?

¹⁵ Did not he who made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb?

¹⁶ If I have withheld the poor from [their] desire, Or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

¹⁷ Or have eaten my morsel alone, And the fatherless has not eaten of it

¹⁸ (No, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, And her I have guided from my mother's womb);

¹⁹ If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, Or that the needy had no covering;

²⁰ If his loins haven't blessed me, And if he has not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

²¹ If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, Because I saw my help in the gate:

²² Then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade, And my arm be broken from the bone.

²³ For calamity from God is a terror to me, And by reason of his majesty I can do nothing.

²⁴ If I have made gold my hope, And have said to the fine gold, [You are] my confidence;

²⁵ If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, And because my hand had gotten much;

²⁶ If I have seen the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness,

²⁷ And my heart has been secretly enticed, And my mouth has kissed my hand:

²⁸ This also was an iniquity to be punished by the judges; For I should have denied the God who is above.

²⁹ If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, Or lifted up myself when evil found him;

³⁰ (Yes, I haven't allowed my mouth to sin By asking his life with a curse);

³¹ If the men of my tent haven't said, Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?

³² (The sojourner has not lodged in the street; But I have opened my doors to the traveler);

³³ If like man I have covered my transgressions, By hiding my iniquity in my bosom,

³⁴ Because I feared the great multitude, And the contempt of families terrified me, So that I kept silent, and didn't go out of the door-

³⁵ Oh that I had one to hear me! (Look, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me); And [that I had] the indictment which my adversary has written!

³⁶ Surely I would carry it on my shoulder; I would bind it to me as a crown:

³⁷ I would declare to him the number of my steps; As a leader I would go near to him.

³⁸ If my land cries out against me, And its furrows weep together;

³⁹ If I have eaten its fruits without money, Or have caused its owners to lose their life:

⁴⁰ Let thistles grow instead of wheat, And cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.