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Job 31

GOD'S WORD Translation GW

1 "I have made an agreement with my eyes. Then how can I look with lust at a virgin?

2 What would God above do [to me]? What would be my inheritance from the Almighty on high?

3 Aren't there catastrophes for wicked people and disasters for those who do wrong?

4 Doesn't he see my ways and count all my steps?

5 "If I have walked with lies or my feet have run after deception,

6 [then] let God weigh me on honest scales, and he will know I have integrity.

7 "If my steps have left the [proper] path, or my heart has followed [the desire of] my eyes, or my hands are stained [with sin],

8 [then] let someone else eat what I have planted, and let my crops be uprooted.

9 "If I have been seduced by a woman or I have secretly waited near my neighbor's door,

10 [then] let my wife grind for another [man], and let other [men] kneel over her.

11 That would be a scandal, and that would be a criminal offense.

12 It would be a fire that burns even in Abaddon. It would uproot my entire harvest.

13 "If I have abused the rights of my servants, male or female, when they have disagreed with me,

14 then what could I do if God rises up? If he examines me, how could I answer him?

15 Didn't he who made me in my mother's belly make them? Didn't the same God form us in the womb?

16 "If I have refused the requests of the poor or made a widow's eyes stop [looking for help],

17 or have eaten my food alone without letting the orphan eat any of it....

18 (From my youth the orphan grew up with me as though I were his father, and from my birth I treated the widow kindly.)

19 If I have seen anyone die because he had no clothes or a poor person going naked....

20 (If his body didn't bless me, or the wool from my sheep didn't keep him warm....)

21 If I have shaken my fist at an orphan because I knew that others would back me up in court,

22 [then] let my shoulder fall out of its socket, and let my arm be broken at the elbow.

23 "A disaster from God terrifies me. In the presence of his majesty I can do nothing.

24 "If I put my confidence in gold or said to fine gold, 'I trust you'....

25 If I enjoyed being very rich because my hand had found great [wealth]....

26 If I saw the light shine or the moon move along in its splendor

27 so that my heart was secretly tempted, and I threw them a kiss with my hand,

28 then that, too, would be a criminal offense, and I would have denied God above.

29 "If I enjoyed the ruin of my enemy or celebrated when harm came to him

30 (even though I didn't speak sinfully by calling down a curse on his life)....

31 "If the people who were in my tent had said, 'We wish we had never filled [our stomachs] with his food'....

32 (The visitor never spent the night outside, because I opened my door to the traveler.)

33 "If I have covered my disobedience like Adam and kept my sin to myself,

34 because I dreaded the large, noisy crowd and because the contempt of the [local] mobs terrified me so that I kept quiet and didn't go outside....

35 "If only I had someone who would listen to me! Look, here is my signature! Let the Almighty answer me. Let the prosecutor write [his complaint] on a scroll.

36 I would certainly carry it on my shoulder and place it on my head like a crown.

37 I would tell him the number of my steps and approach him like a prince.

38 "If my land has cried out against me, and its furrows have wept ....

39 If I have eaten its produce without paying for it and made its owners breathe their last,

40 [then] let it grow thistles instead of wheat, and foul-smelling weeds instead of barley." This is the end of Job's words.

New International Version NIV

1 “I made a covenant with my eyes not to look lustfully at a young woman.

2 For what is our lot from God above, our heritage from the Almighty on high?

3 Is it not ruin for the wicked, disaster for those who do wrong?

4 Does he not see my ways and count my every step?

5 “If I have walked with falsehood or my foot has hurried after deceit—

6 let God weigh me in honest scales and he will know that I am blameless—

7 if my steps have turned from the path, if my heart has been led by my eyes, or if my hands have been defiled,

8 then may others eat what I have sown, and may my crops be uprooted.

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

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

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

12 It is a fire that burns to Destruction ; 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,

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

15 Did 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,

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

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

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

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

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

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

23 For 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,’

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

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

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

28 then 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—

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

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

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

33 if I have concealed my sin as people do,by hiding my guilt in my heart

34 because I so feared the crowd and so dreaded the contempt of the clans that I kept silent and would not go outside—

35 (“Oh, that I had someone to hear me! I sign now my defense—let the Almighty answer me; let my accuser put his indictment in writing.

36 Surely I would wear it on my shoulder, I would put it on like a crown.

37 I would give him an account of my every step; I would present it to him as to a ruler.)—

38 “if my land cries out against me and all its furrows are wet with tears,

39 if I have devoured its yield without payment or broken the spirit of its tenants,

40 then let briers come up instead of wheat and stinkweed instead of barley.” The words of Job are ended.