Job (The Book of )

"I have made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I look upon a virgin?

What would be my portion from God above, and my heritage from the Almighty on high?

Does not calamity befall the unrighteous, and disaster the workers of iniquity?

Does not he see my ways, and number all my steps?

"If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot has hastened to deceit;

(Let me be weighed in a just balance, and let God know my integrity!)

if my step has turned aside from the way, and my heart has gone after my eyes, and if any spot has cleaved to my hands;

then let me sow, and another eat; and let what grows for me be rooted out.

"If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbor's door;

then let my wife grind for another, and let others bow down upon her.

For that would be a heinous crime; that would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges;

for that would be a fire which consumes unto Abaddon, and it would burn to the root all my increase.

"If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or my maidservant, when they brought a complaint against me;

what then shall I do when God rises up? When he makes inquiry, what shall I answer him?

Did not he who made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb?

"If I have withheld anything that the poor desired, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,