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1	I MADE a covenant with mine eyes; how then should I look upon a maid?

2	For what {cf15i is} the portion of God from above, and the heritage of the Almighty from on high?

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

4	Doth not he see my ways, and number all my steps?

5	If I have walked with vanity, and my foot hath hasted to deceit;

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

7	If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any spot hath cleaved to mine hands:

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

9	If mine heart have been enticed unto a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbour-s door:

10	Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.

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

12	For it is a fire that consumeth unto Destruction, and would root out all mine increase.

13	If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me:

14	What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?

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

16	If I have withheld the poor from {cf15i their} desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

17	Or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;

18	(Nay, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, and I have been her guide 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 have not blessed me, and if he were not 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 mine arm be broken from the bone.

23	For calamity from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his excellency I could do nothing.

24	If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, {cf15i Thou art} my confidence;

25	If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much;

26	If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;

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

28	This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judges: for I should have lied to God that is above.

29	If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him;

30	(Yea, I suffered not my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse;)

31	If the men of my tent said not, Who can find one that hath not been satisfied with his flesh?

32	The stranger did not lodge in the street; but I opened my doors to the traveller;

33	If like Adam I covered my transgressions, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom;

34	Because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and went not out of the door--

35	Oh that I had one to hear me! (lo, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me;) and {cf15i that I had} the indictment which mine adversary hath written!

36	Surely I would carry it upon my shoulder; I would bind it unto me as a crown.

37	I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.

38	If my land cry out against me, and the furrows thereof weep together;

39	If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:

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