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"I have made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I gaze at a virgin? |
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What would be my portion from God above and my heritage from the Almighty on high? |
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Is not calamity for the unrighteous, and disaster for the workers of iniquity? |
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Does not he see my ways and number all my steps? |
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"If I have walked with falsehood and my foot has hastened to deceit; |
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(Let me be weighed in a just balance, and let God know my integrity!) |
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if my step has turned aside from the way and my heart has gone after my eyes, and if any spot has stuck to my hands, |
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then let me sow, and another eat, and let what grows for me be rooted out. |
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"If my heart has been enticed toward a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbor's door, |
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then let my wife grind for another, and let others bow down on her. |
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For that would be a heinous crime; that would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges; |
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for that would be a fire that consumes as far as Abaddon, and it would burn to the root all my increase. |
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"If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or my maidservant, when they brought a complaint against me, |
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what then shall I do when God rises up? When he makes inquiry, what shall I answer him? |
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Did not he who made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb? |
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"If I have withheld anything that the poor desired, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail, |
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or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it |
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(for from my youth the fatherless grew up with me as with a father, and from my mother's womb I guided the widow), |
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if I have seen anyone perish for lack of clothing, or the needy without covering, |
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if his body has not blessed me, and if he was not warmed with the fleece of my sheep, |
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if I have raised my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate, |
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then let my shoulder blade fall from my shoulder, and let my arm be broken from its socket. |
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For I was in terror of calamity from God, and I could not have faced his majesty. |
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"If I have made gold my trust or called fine gold my confidence, |
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if I have rejoiced because my wealth was abundant or because my hand had found much, |
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if I have looked at the sun when it shone, or the moon moving in splendor, |
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and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my mouth has kissed my hand, |
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this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges, for I would have been false to God above. |
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"If I have rejoiced at the ruin of him who hated me, or exulted when evil overtook him |
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(I have not let my mouth sin by asking for his life with a curse), |
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if the men of my tent have not said, 'Who is there that has not been filled with his meat?' |
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( the sojourner has not lodged in the street; I have opened my doors to the traveler), |
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if I have concealed my transgressions as others do by hiding my iniquity in my bosom, |
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because I stood in great fear of the multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and did not go out of doors- |
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Oh, that I had one to hear me! (Here is my signature! Let the Almighty answer me!) Oh, that I had the indictment written by my adversary! |
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Surely I would carry it on my shoulder; I would bind it on me as a crown; |
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I would give him an account of all my steps; like a prince I would approach him. |
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"If my land has cried out against me and its furrows have wept together, |
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if I have eaten its yield without payment and made its owners breathe their last, |
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let thorns grow instead of wheat, and foul weeds instead of barley." The words of Job are ended. |
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