1I DICTATED a covenant (an agreement) to my eyes; how then could I look [lustfully] upon a girl?
2For what portion should I have from God above [if I were lewd], and what heritage from the Almighty on high?
3Does not calamity [justly] befall the unrighteous, and disaster the workers of iniquity?
4Does not [God] see my ways and count all my steps?
5If I have walked with falsehood {or} vanity, or if my foot has hastened to deceit--
6Oh, let me be weighed in a just balance {and} let Him weigh me, that God may know my integrity!
7If my step has turned out of [God's] way, and my heart has gone the way my eyes [covetously] invited, and if any spot has stained my hands with guilt,
8Then let me sow and let another eat; yes, let the produce of my field {or} my offspring be rooted out.
9If my heart has been deceived {and} I made a fool by a woman, or if I have [covetously] laid wait at my neighbor's door [until his departure],
10Then let my wife grind [meal, like a bondslave] for another, and let others bow down upon her.
11For [adultery] is a heinous {and} chief crime, an iniquity [to demand action by] the judges {and} punishment.
12For [uncontrolled passion] is a fire which consumes to Abaddon (to destruction, ruin, and the place of final torment); [that fire once lighted would rage until all is consumed] and would burn to the root all my [life's] increase.
13If I have despised {and} rejected the cause of my manservant or my maidservant when they contended {or} brought a complaint against me,
14What then shall I do when God rises up [to judge]? When He visits [to inquire of me], what shall I answer Him?
15Did not He Who made me in the womb make [my servant]? And did not One fashion us both in the womb?
16If I have withheld from the poor {and} needy what they desired, or have caused the eyes of the widow to look in vain [for relief],
17Or have eaten my morsel alone and have not shared it with the fatherless--
18No, but from my youth [the fatherless] grew up with me as a father, and I have been [the widow's] guide from my mother's womb--
19If I have seen anyone perish for want of clothing, or any poor person without covering,
20If his loins have not blessed me [for clothing them], and if he was not warmed with the fleece of my sheep,
21If I have lifted my hand against the fatherless when I saw [that the judges would be favorable and be] my help at the [council] gate,
22Then let my shoulder fall away from my shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from its socket.
23For calamity from God was a terror to me, and because of His majesty I could not endure [to face Him] {and} could do nothing.
24If I have made gold my trust {and} hope or have said to fine gold, You are my confidence,
25If I rejoiced because my wealth was great and because my [powerful] hand [alone] had gotten much,
26If I beheld [as an object of worship] the sunlight when it shone or the moon walking in its brightness,
27And my heart has been secretly enticed by them or my mouth has kissed my hand [in homage to them],
28This also would have been [a heinous and principal] iniquity to demand the judges' action {and} punishment, for I would have denied {and} been false to the God Who is above.
29If I rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me or lifted myself up [in malicious triumph] when evil overtook him--
30No, I have let my mouth sin neither by cursing my enemy nor by praying that he might die--
31[Just ask] if the men of my tent will not say, Who can find one in need who has not been satisfied with food he gave them?--
32The temporary resident has not lodged in the street, but I have opened my door to the wayfaring man--
33If like Adam {or} like [other] men I have concealed my transgressions, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom
34Because I feared the great multitude and the contempt of families terrified me so that I kept silence and did not go out of the door--
35Oh, for a hearing! Oh, for an answer from the Almighty! Let my adversary write out His indictment [and put His vague accusations in tangible form] in a book!
36Surely I would [proudly] bear it on my shoulder and wind the scroll about my head as a diadem.
37I would count out to Him the number of my steps [with every detail of my life], approaching His presence as a prince--
38For if my land has cried out against me and its furrows have complained together with tears [that I have no right to them],
39If I have eaten its fruits without paying for them or have caused its [rightful] owners to breathe their last,
40Let thistles grow instead of wheat and cockleburs instead of barley. The [controversial] words of Job [with his friends] are ended.
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