<!--more--><div class="scripturelog_navigation"><div> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1000000">Old Testament</a> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1013324">Job</a> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1014074">Chapter 31</a></div><div><span class="scripturelog_navigation_previous"><a href="?page_id=1014042">&laquo; Previous Chapter</a></span> &bull; <span class="scripturelog_navigation_next"><a href="?page_id=1014115">Next Chapter &raquo;</a></span></div></div><p><em>Job's Response</em></p><ul class="scripturelog_verse_list"><li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1014075">1</a>. I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1014076">2</a>. For what portion of God is there from above?  and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1014077">3</a>. Is not destruction to the wicked?  and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1014078">4</a>. Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1014079">5</a>. If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1014080">6</a>. Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1014081">7</a>. 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;</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1014082">8</a>. Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1014083">9</a>. If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour's door;</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1014084">10</a>. Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1014085">11</a>. For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1014086">12</a>. For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1014087">13</a>. If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1014088">14</a>. What then shall I do when God riseth up?  and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1014089">15</a>. Did not he that made me in the womb make him?  and did not one fashion us in the womb?</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1014090">16</a>. If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1014091">17</a>. Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1014092">18</a>. (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1014093">19</a>. If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1014094">20</a>. If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1014095">21</a>. If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1014096">22</a>. Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1014097">23</a>. For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1014098">24</a>. If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1014099">25</a>. If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much;</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1014100">26</a>. If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1014101">27</a>. And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1014102">28</a>. This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1014103">29</a>. If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1014104">30</a>. Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1014105">31</a>. If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh!  we cannot be satisfied.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1014106">32</a>. The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1014107">33</a>. If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1014108">34</a>. 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?</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1014109">35</a>. Oh that one would hear me!  behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1014110">36</a>. Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1014111">37</a>. I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1014112">38</a>. If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1014113">39</a>. If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1014114">40</a>. Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley.  The words of Job are ended.</li>
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