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fjrigjwwe9r2KJV_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2KJV_Bible_EN:TextData I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid? |
| 2 |
fjrigjwwe9r2KJV_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2KJV_Bible_EN:TextData For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high? |
| 3 |
fjrigjwwe9r2KJV_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2KJV_Bible_EN:TextData Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity? |
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fjrigjwwe9r2KJV_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2KJV_Bible_EN:TextData Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps? |
| 5 |
fjrigjwwe9r2KJV_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2KJV_Bible_EN:TextData If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit; |
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fjrigjwwe9r2KJV_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2KJV_Bible_EN:TextData Let me be weighed in an even balance that God may know mine integrity. |
| 7 |
fjrigjwwe9r2KJV_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2KJV_Bible_EN:TextData 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; |
| 8 |
fjrigjwwe9r2KJV_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2KJV_Bible_EN:TextData Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out. |
| 9 |
fjrigjwwe9r2KJV_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2KJV_Bible_EN:TextData If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour's door; |
| 10 |
fjrigjwwe9r2KJV_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2KJV_Bible_EN:TextData Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her. |
| 11 |
fjrigjwwe9r2KJV_Bible_EN:TextData For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges. |
| 12 |
fjrigjwwe9r2KJV_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2KJV_Bible_EN:TextData For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase. |
| 13 |
fjrigjwwe9r2KJV_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2KJV_Bible_EN:TextData If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me; |
| 14 |
fjrigjwwe9r2KJV_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2KJV_Bible_EN:TextData What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him? |
| 15 |
fjrigjwwe9r2KJV_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2KJV_Bible_EN:TextData Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb? |
| 16 |
fjrigjwwe9r2KJV_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2KJV_Bible_EN:TextData If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail; |
| 17 |
fjrigjwwe9r2KJV_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2KJV_Bible_EN:TextData Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof; |
| 18 |
fjrigjwwe9r2KJV_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2KJV_Bible_EN:TextData (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;) |
| 19 |
fjrigjwwe9r2KJV_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2KJV_Bible_EN:TextData If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering; |
| 20 |
fjrigjwwe9r2KJV_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2KJV_Bible_EN:TextData If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep; |
| 21 |
fjrigjwwe9r2KJV_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2KJV_Bible_EN:TextData If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate: |
| 22 |
fjrigjwwe9r2KJV_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2KJV_Bible_EN:TextData Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone. |
| 23 |
fjrigjwwe9r2KJV_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2KJV_Bible_EN:TextData For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure. |
| 24 |
fjrigjwwe9r2KJV_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2KJV_Bible_EN:TextData If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence; |
| 25 |
fjrigjwwe9r2KJV_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2KJV_Bible_EN:TextData If I rejoice because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much; |
| 26 |
fjrigjwwe9r2KJV_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2KJV_Bible_EN:TextData If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness; |
| 27 |
fjrigjwwe9r2KJV_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2KJV_Bible_EN:TextData And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand: |
| 28 |
fjrigjwwe9r2KJV_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2KJV_Bible_EN:TextData This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above. |
| 29 |
fjrigjwwe9r2KJV_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2KJV_Bible_EN:TextData If I rejoice at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him: |
| 30 |
fjrigjwwe9r2KJV_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2KJV_Bible_EN:TextData Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul. |
| 31 |
fjrigjwwe9r2KJV_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2KJV_Bible_EN:TextData If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied. |
| 32 |
fjrigjwwe9r2KJV_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2KJV_Bible_EN:TextData The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller. |
| 33 |
fjrigjwwe9r2KJV_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2KJV_Bible_EN:TextData If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom: |
| 34 |
fjrigjwwe9r2KJV_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2KJV_Bible_EN:TextData 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? |
| 35 |
fjrigjwwe9r2KJV_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2KJV_Bible_EN:TextData Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book. |
| 36 |
fjrigjwwe9r2KJV_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2KJV_Bible_EN:TextData Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me. |
| 37 |
fjrigjwwe9r2KJV_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2KJV_Bible_EN:TextData I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him. |
| 38 |
fjrigjwwe9r2KJV_Bible_EN:TextData If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain; |
| 39 |
fjrigjwwe9r2KJV_Bible_EN:TextData If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life: |
| 40 |
fjrigjwwe9r2KJV_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2KJV_Bible_EN:TextData Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended. |
