King James Version

Job 31

Job in the King James Version. Each verse number opens that verse. Study, in the row above the verse, opens the Hebrew, the notes, the other translations, and the connections.

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Open Job 31:1

I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?
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Open Job 31:2

For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?
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Open Job 31:3

Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?
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Open Job 31:4

Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?
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Open Job 31:5

If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;
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Open Job 31:6

Let me be weighed in an even balance that God may know mine integrity.
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Open Job 31:7

If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;
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Open Job 31:8

Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.
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Open Job 31:9

If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour’s door;
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Open Job 31:10

Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.
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Open Job 31:11

For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.
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Open Job 31:12

For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.
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Open Job 31:13

If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;
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Open Job 31:14

What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?
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Open Job 31:15

Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
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Open Job 31:16

If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
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Open Job 31:17

Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;
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Open Job 31:18

(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother’s womb;)
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Open Job 31:19

If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;
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Open Job 31:20

If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
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Open Job 31:21

If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:
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Open Job 31:22

Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.
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Open Job 31:23

For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.
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Open Job 31:24

If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;
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Open Job 31:25

If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much;
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Open Job 31:26

If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;
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Open Job 31:27

And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand:
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Open Job 31:28

This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.
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Open Job 31:29

If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:
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Open Job 31:30

Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.
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Open Job 31:31

If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.
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Open Job 31:32

The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller.
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Open Job 31:33

If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:
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Open Job 31:34

Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door?
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Open Job 31:35

Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.
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Open Job 31:36

Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.
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Open Job 31:37

I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.
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Open Job 31:38

If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;
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Open Job 31:39

If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:
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Open Job 31:40

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

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