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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData I made a covenant with mine eyes; How then should I look upon a virgin? |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData For what is the portion from God above, And the heritage from the Almighty on high? |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, And disaster to the workers of iniquity? |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData Doth not he see my ways, And number all my steps? |
| 5 |
fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData If I have walked with falsehood, And my foot hath hasted to deceit; |
| 6 |
fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData (Let me be weighed in an even balance, That God may know mine integrity); |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData If my step hath turned out of the way, And my heart walked after mine eyes, And if any spot hath cleaved to my hands: |
| 8 |
fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData Then let me sow, and let another eat; Yea, let the produce of my field be rooted out. |
| 9 |
fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData If my heart hath been enticed unto a woman, And I have laid wait at my neighbor's door; |
| 10 |
fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData Then let my wife grind unto another, And let others bow down upon her. |
| 11 |
fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData For that were a heinous crime; Yea, it were an iniquity to be punished by the judges: |
| 12 |
fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData For it is a fire that consumeth unto Destruction, And would root out all mine increase. |
| 13 |
fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData If I have despised the cause of my man-servant or of my maid-servant, When they contended with me; |
| 14 |
fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData What then shall I do when God riseth up? And when he visiteth, what shall I answer him? |
| 15 |
fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData Did not he that made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb? |
| 16 |
fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData If I have withheld the poor from `their' desire, Or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail, |
| 17 |
fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData Or have eaten my morsel alone, And the fatherless hath not eaten thereof; |
| 18 |
fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData (Nay, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, And her have I guided from my mother's womb); |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, Or that the needy had no covering; |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData If his loins have not blessed me, And if he hath not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep; |
| 21 |
fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, Because I saw my help in the gate: |
| 22 |
fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData Then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade, And mine arm be broken from the bone. |
| 23 |
fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData For calamity from God is a terror to me, And by reason of his majesty I can do nothing. |
| 24 |
fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData If I have made gold my hope, And have said to the fine gold, `Thou art' my confidence; |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, And because my hand had gotten much; |
| 26 |
fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData If I have beheld the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness, |
| 27 |
fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData And my heart hath been secretly enticed, And my mouth hath kissed my hand: |
| 28 |
fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judges; For I should have denied the God that is above. |
| 29 |
fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, Or lifted up myself when evil found him; |
| 30 |
fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData (Yea, I have not suffered by mouth to sin By asking his life with a curse); |
| 31 |
fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData If the men of my tent have not said, Who can find one that hath not been filled with his meat? |
| 32 |
fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData (The sojourner hath not lodged in the street; But I have opened my doors to the traveller); |
| 33 |
fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData If like Adam I have covered my transgressions, By hiding mine iniquity in my bosom, |
| 34 |
fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData 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 |
fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData Oh that I had one to hear me! (Lo, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me); And `that I had' the indictment which mine adversary hath written! |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData Surely I would carry it upon my shoulder; I would bind it unto me as a crown: |
| 37 |
fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData I would declare unto him the number of my steps; As a prince would I go near unto him. |
| 38 |
fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData If my land crieth out against me, And the furrows thereof weep together; |
| 39 |
fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, Or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life: |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData Let thistles grow instead of wheat, And cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended. |
