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| 31:1 |
A covenant I made for mine eyes, And what -- do I attend to a virgin?
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| 31:2 |
And what [is] the portion of God from above? And the inheritance of the Mighty from the heights?
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| 31:3 |
Is not calamity to the perverse? And strangeness to workers of iniquity?
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| 31:4 |
Doth not He see my ways, And all my steps number?
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| 31:5 |
If I have walked with vanity, And my foot doth hasten to deceit,
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| 31:6 |
He doth weigh me in righteous balances, And God doth know my integrity.
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| 31:7 |
If my step doth turn aside from the way, And after mine eyes hath my heart gone, And to my hands cleaved hath blemish,
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| 31:8 |
Let me sow -- and another eat, And my products let be rooted out.
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| 31:9 |
If my heart hath been enticed by woman, And by the opening of my neighbour I laid wait,
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| 31:10 |
Grind to another let my wife, And over her let others bend.
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| 31:11 |
For it [is] a wicked thing, and a judicial iniquity;
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| 31:12 |
For a fire it [is], to destruction it consumeth, And among all mine increase doth take root,
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| 31:13 |
If I despise the cause of my man-servant, And of my handmaid, In their contending with me,
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| 31:14 |
Then what do I do when God ariseth? And when He doth inspect, What do I answer Him?
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| 31:15 |
Did not He that made me in the womb make him? Yea, prepare us in the womb doth One.
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| 31:16 |
If I withhold from pleasure the poor, And the eyes of the widow do consume,
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| 31:17 |
And I do eat my morsel by myself, And the orphan hath not eat of it,
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| 31:18 |
(But from my youth He grew up with me as [with] a father, And from the belly of my mother I am led.)
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| 31:19 |
If I see [any] perishing without clothing, And there is no covering to the needy,
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| 31:20 |
If his loins have not blessed me, And from the fleece of my sheep He doth not warm himself,
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| 31:21 |
If I have waved at the fatherless my hand, When I see in [him] the gate of my court,
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| 31:22 |
My shoulder from its blade let fall, And mine arm from the bone be broken.
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| 31:23 |
For a dread unto me [is] calamity [from] God, And because of His excellency I am not able.
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| 31:24 |
If I have made gold my confidence, And to the pure gold have said, `My trust,'
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| 31:25 |
If I rejoice because great [is] my wealth, And because abundance hath my hand found,
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| 31:26 |
If I see the light when it shineth, And the precious moon walking,
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| 31:27 |
And my heart is enticed in secret, And my hand doth kiss my mouth,
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| 31:28 |
It also [is] a judicial iniquity, For I had lied to God above.
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| 31:29 |
If I rejoice at the ruin of my hater, And stirred up myself when evil found him,
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| 31:30 |
Yea, I have not suffered my mouth to sin, To ask with an oath his life.
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| 31:31 |
If not -- say ye, O men of my tent, `O that we had of his flesh, we are not satisfied.'
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| 31:32 |
In the street doth not lodge a stranger, My doors to the traveller I open.
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| 31:33 |
If I have covered as Adam my transgressions, To hide in my bosom mine iniquity,
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| 31:34 |
Because I fear a great multitude, And the contempt of families doth affright me, Then I am silent, I go not out of the opening.
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| 31:35 |
Who giveth to me a hearing? lo, my mark. The Mighty One doth answer me, And a bill hath mine adversary written.
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| 31:36 |
If not -- on my shoulder I take it up, I bind it a crown on myself.
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| 31:37 |
The number of my steps I tell Him, As a leader I approach Him.
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| 31:38 |
If against me my land doth cry out, And together its furrows weep,
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| 31:39 |
If its strength I consumed without money, And the life of its possessors, I have caused to breathe out,
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| 31:40 |
Instead of wheat let a thorn go forth, And instead of barley a useless weed! The words of Job are finished.
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