1 I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?

<>v. 1

2 For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?

<>what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?

3 Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?

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

<>v. 4, <>Doth not he … count all my steps?, <>my ways, <>count all my steps

5 If I have walked with vanity, or if 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 blot hath cleaved to mine hands;

<>vv. 7-8, <>mine heart walked after mine eyes

8 Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.

<>vv. 7-8

9 If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour's door;

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

<>wife

11 For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.

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

<>a fire that consumeth

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

<>vv. 13-14, <>despise

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

<>vv. 13-14

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

<>did not one fashion us in the womb?

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

<>vv. 16-17, <>eyes … to fail, <>widow

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

<>vv. 16-17

18 (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)

<>my youth

19 If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;

<>v. 19, <>perish, <>want

20 If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

<>if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep

21 If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:

<>vv. 21-22, <>If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, <>the gate

22 Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.

<>vv. 21-22

23 For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.

24 If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;

<>vv. 24-25,27-28, <>hope, <>fine gold, <>confidence

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

<>vv. 24-25,27-28, <>v. 25

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

<>vv. 26-28

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

<>vv. 26-28, <>vv. 24-25,27-28

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

<>vv. 26-28, <>vv. 24-25,27-28

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

<>If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me

30 Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.

<>Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin

31 If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.

<>v. 31

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

<>v. 32, <>The stranger

33 If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:

<>If I covered my transgressions as Adam, <>transgressions

34 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?

<>families, <>the door

35 Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.

<>Oh that one would hear me!, <>my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, <>adversary

36 Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.

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

<>I would declare unto him the number of my steps, <>would I go near unto him

38 If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;

<>vv. 38-40

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

<>vv. 38-40, <>If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money

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

<>vv. 38-40, <>Let thistles grow, <>The words of Job are ended.