Job 31:4-14

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[a] ; 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?

Cross References 24

  • 1. 2 Chronicles 16:9; Psalms 139:3; Daniel 4:37; Daniel 5:23
  • 2. S ver 14; S Job 10:4; Proverbs 5:21
  • 3. S Job 15:31; Micah 2:11
  • 4. Psalms 139:23
  • 5. S Leviticus 19:36; S Job 6:2; Job 27:5-6
  • 6. S Genesis 6:9; S Job 2:3; S Job 23:10
  • 7. S Job 23:11
  • 8. S Job 9:30
  • 9. Psalms 7:3
  • 10. S Job 5:5; S Job 20:10; John 4:37; Leviticus 26:16; Job 20:18
  • 11. ver 12; Micah 6:15
  • 12. S Deuteronomy 11:16; S Job 24:15; James 1:14
  • 13. Proverbs 5:3; Proverbs 7:5
  • 14. S Judges 16:21
  • 15. Deuteronomy 28:30; Jeremiah 8:10
  • 16. Proverbs 6:32-33
  • 17. S Genesis 38:24; S Exodus 21:12; John 8:4-5; Leviticus 20:10; Deuteronomy 22:22-24
  • 18. S Job 15:30
  • 19. S Job 26:6
  • 20. S ver 8; Job 20:28
  • 21. S Deuteronomy 5:14
  • 22. Exodus 21:2-11; Leviticus 25:39-46; Deuteronomy 24:14-15
  • 23. Job 33:5
  • 24. ver 4,37; Psalms 10:13,15; Psalms 94:7; Isaiah 10:3; Jeremiah 5:31; Hosea 9:7; Micah 7:4; Colossians 4:1

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