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Job 31:9-32

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9“If my heart has been enticed by a woman, or if I have lurked at my neighbor’s door,

10then may my wife grind another man’s grain, and may other men sleep with her.

11For that would have been wicked, a sin to be judged.

12It is a fire that burns to Destruction Hebrew Abaddon ; it would have uprooted my harvest.

13“If I have denied justice to any of my servants, whether male or female, when they had a grievance against me,

14what will I do when God confronts me? What will I answer when called to account?

15Did not he who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same one form us both within our mothers?

16“If I have denied the desires of the poor or let the eyes of the widow grow weary,

17if I have kept my bread to myself, not sharing it with the fatherless—

18but from my youth I reared them as a father would, and from my birth I guided the widow—

19if I have seen anyone perishing for lack of clothing, or the needy without garments,

20and their hearts did not bless me for warming them with the fleece from my sheep,

21if I have raised my hand against the fatherless, knowing that I had influence in court,

22then let my arm fall from the shoulder, let it be broken off at the joint.

23For I dreaded destruction from God, and for fear of his splendor I could not do such things.

24“If I have put my trust in gold or said to pure gold, ‘You are my security,’

25if I have rejoiced over my great wealth, the fortune my hands had gained,

26if I have regarded the sun in its radiance or the moon moving in splendor,

27so that my heart was secretly enticed and my hand offered them a kiss of homage,

28then these also would be sins to be judged, for I would have been unfaithful to God on high.

29“If I have rejoiced at my enemy’s misfortune or gloated over the trouble that came to him—

30I have not allowed my mouth to sin by invoking a curse against their life—

31if those of my household have never said, ‘Who has not been filled with Job’s meat?’—

32but no stranger had to spend the night in the street, for my door was always open to the traveler—