Job Asserts His Integrity 1I have made a covenant with my eyes; How then could I gaze at a virgin?
2And what is the portion of God from above
3Is it not calamity to the unjust
4Does He not see my ways
5If I have walked with falsehood,
6Let Him weigh me with accurate scales,
7If my step has turned from the way,
8Let me sow and another eat,
9If my heart has been enticed by a woman,
10May my wife grind for another,
11For that would be a lustful crime;
12For it would be fire that consumes to Abaddon,
13If I have despised the claim of my male or female slaves
14What then could I do when God arises?
15Did not He who made me in the womb make him,
16If I have kept the poor from their desire,
17Or have eaten my morsel alone,
18(But from my youth he grew up with me as with a father,
19If I have seen anyone perish for lack of clothing,
20If his loins have not thanked me,
21If I have lifted up my hand against the orphan,
22Let my shoulder fall from the socket,
23For calamity from God is a terror to me,
24If I have put my confidence in gold,
25If I have gloated because my wealth was great,
26If I have looked at the sun when it shone
27And my heart became secretly enticed,
28That too would have been an iniquity calling for judgment,
29Have I rejoiced at the extinction of my enemy,
30No, I have not allowed my mouth to sin
31Have the men of my tent not said,
32The alien has not lodged outside,
33Have I covered my transgressions like Adam,
34Because I feared the great multitude,
35Oh that I had one to hear me!
36Surely I would carry it on my shoulder,
37I would declare to Him the number of my steps;
38If my land cries out against me,
39If I have eaten its fruit without money,
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