Job 31:8-18

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?
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—

Cross References 22

  • 1. S Job 5:5; S Job 20:10; John 4:37; Leviticus 26:16; Job 20:18
  • 2. ver 12; Micah 6:15
  • 3. S Deuteronomy 11:16; S Job 24:15; James 1:14
  • 4. Proverbs 5:3; Proverbs 7:5
  • 5. S Judges 16:21
  • 6. Deuteronomy 28:30; Jeremiah 8:10
  • 7. Proverbs 6:32-33
  • 8. S Genesis 38:24; S Exodus 21:12; John 8:4-5; Leviticus 20:10; Deuteronomy 22:22-24
  • 9. S Job 15:30
  • 10. S Job 26:6
  • 11. S ver 8; Job 20:28
  • 12. S Deuteronomy 5:14
  • 13. Exodus 21:2-11; Leviticus 25:39-46; Deuteronomy 24:14-15
  • 14. Job 33:5
  • 15. 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
  • 16. S Job 4:17; Proverbs 22:2
  • 17. S Job 10:3; Ephesians 6:9
  • 18. S Leviticus 25:17; S Job 5:16; Job 20:19
  • 19. S Job 22:9; James 1:27
  • 20. Job 22:7
  • 21. S Job 6:27; S Job 22:7; Job 29:12
  • 22. Isaiah 51:18

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