Job 31

1“I made a covenant with my eyes; how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?Cross-references: Gen 6:2 · 2Sam 11:2 · Ps 119:37 · Prov 4:25 · Prov 6:25 · Prov 23:31 · +3 more

2For what is the portion from God above, and the heritage from the Almighty on high?Cross-references: Job 20:29 · Job 27:13 · Heb 13:4

3Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?Cross-references: Job 21:30 · Job 34:22 · Ps 55:23 · Ps 73:18 · Prov 1:27 · Prov 10:29 · +8 more

4Doesn’t he see my ways, and count all my steps?Cross-references: Gen 16:13 · 2Chr 16:9 · Job 14:16 · Job 34:21 · Ps 44:21 · Ps 139:1 · +6 more

5“If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot has hurried to deceitCross-references: Ps 4:2 · Ps 7:3 · Ps 12:2 · Ps 44:20 · Prov 12:11 · Jer 2:5 · +2 more

6(let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity);Cross-references: Josh 22:22 · 1Sam 2:3 · Job 6:2 · Job 27:5 · Ps 1:6 · Ps 7:8 · +9 more

7if my step has turned out of the way, if my heart walked after my eyes, if any defilement has stuck to my hands,Cross-references: Num 15:39 · Job 9:30 · Job 23:11 · Ps 44:20 · Ps 101:3 · Eccl 11:9 · +5 more

8then let me sow, and let another eat. Yes, let the produce of my field be rooted out.Cross-references: Lev 26:16 · Deut 28:30 · Deut 28:38 · Deut 28:51 · Judg 6:3 · Job 5:4 · +6 more

9“If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbor’s door,Cross-references: Judg 16:5 · 1Ki 11:4 · Neh 13:26 · Job 24:15 · Prov 2:16 · Prov 5:3 · +6 more

10then let my wife grind for another, and let others sleep with her.Cross-references: Ex 11:5 · Deut 28:30 · 2Sam 12:11 · Isa 47:2 · Jer 8:10 · Hos 4:13 · +1 more

11For that would be a heinous crime. Yes, it would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges,Cross-references: Gen 20:9 · Gen 26:10 · Gen 38:24 · Gen 39:9 · Ex 20:14 · Lev 20:10 · +4 more

12for it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase.Cross-references: Job 15:30 · Job 20:28 · Job 26:6 · Prov 3:33 · Prov 6:27 · Jer 5:7 · +2 more

13“If I have despised the cause of my male servant or of my female servant, when they contended with me,Cross-references: Ex 21:20 · Ex 21:26 · Lev 25:43 · Lev 25:46 · Deut 15:12 · Deut 24:14 · +3 more

14what then will I do when God rises up? When he visits, what will I answer him?Cross-references: Job 9:32 · Job 10:2 · Ps 7:6 · Ps 9:12 · Ps 9:19 · Ps 10:12 · +10 more

15Didn’t he who made me in the womb make him? Didn’t one fashion us in the womb?Cross-references: Neh 5:5 · Job 10:3 · Job 10:8 · Job 34:19 · Ps 139:14 · Prov 14:31 · +3 more

16“If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,Cross-references: Deut 15:7 · Deut 28:32 · Job 5:16 · Job 20:19 · Job 22:7 · Ps 69:3 · +8 more

17or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of itCross-references: Deut 15:11 · Deut 15:14 · Neh 8:10 · Job 22:7 · Job 29:12 · Ezek 18:7 · +7 more

18(no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, I have guided her from my mother’s womb);

19if I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;Cross-references: 2Chr 28:15 · Job 22:6 · Job 24:4 · Job 29:13 · Isa 58:7 · Matt 25:36 · +5 more

20if his heart hasn’t blessed me, if he hasn’t been warmed with my sheep’s fleece;Cross-references: Deut 24:13 · Job 29:11

21if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate;Cross-references: Job 6:27 · Job 22:9 · Job 24:9 · Job 29:12 · Prov 23:10 · Jer 5:28 · +3 more

22then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from the bone.Cross-references: Josh 22:22 · Job 31:10 · Job 31:40 · Job 38:15 · Ps 7:4 · Ps 137:6

23For calamity from God is a terror to me. Because of his majesty, I can do nothing.Cross-references: Gen 39:9 · Job 13:11 · Job 20:23 · Job 21:20 · Job 40:9 · Job 42:5 · +5 more

24“If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, ‘You are my confidence;’Cross-references: Gen 31:1 · Deut 8:12 · Ps 49:6 · Ps 49:17 · Ps 52:7 · Ps 62:10 · +8 more

25If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;Cross-references: Deut 8:17 · Esth 5:11 · Ps 62:10 · Prov 23:5 · Isa 10:13 · Jer 9:23 · +7 more

26if I have seen the sun when it shined, or the moon moving in splendor,Cross-references: Gen 1:16 · Deut 4:19 · Deut 11:16 · Deut 17:3 · 2Ki 23:5 · 2Ki 23:11 · +4 more

27and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth;Cross-references: Deut 11:16 · Deut 13:6 · 1Ki 19:18 · Ps 2:12 · Isa 44:20 · Hos 13:2 · +2 more

28this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges, for I would have denied the God who is above.Cross-references: Gen 18:25 · Deut 17:2 · Deut 17:9 · Josh 24:23 · Josh 24:27 · Judg 11:27 · +10 more

29“If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found himCross-references: 2Sam 1:12 · 2Sam 4:10 · 2Sam 16:5 · Ps 35:13 · Ps 35:25 · Prov 17:5 · +2 more

30(I have certainly not allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse);Cross-references: Ex 23:4 · Eccl 5:2 · Eccl 5:6 · Matt 5:22 · Matt 5:43 · Matt 12:36 · +5 more

31if the men of my tent have not said, ‘Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?’Cross-references: 1Sam 24:4 · 1Sam 24:10 · 1Sam 26:8 · 2Sam 16:9 · 2Sam 19:21 · Job 19:22 · +9 more

32(the foreigner has not camped in the street, but I have opened my doors to the traveler);Cross-references: Gen 19:2 · Judg 19:15 · Judg 19:20 · Job 31:17 · Isa 58:7 · Matt 25:35 · +6 more

33if like Adam I have covered my transgressions, by hiding my iniquity in my heart,Cross-references: Gen 3:7 · Gen 3:12 · Josh 7:11 · Prov 28:13 · Hos 6:7 · Acts 5:8 · +1 more

34because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and didn’t go out of the door—Cross-references: Ex 23:2 · Ex 32:27 · Num 25:14 · Neh 5:7 · Neh 13:4 · Neh 13:28 · +13 more

35oh that I had one to hear me! Behold, here is my signature! Let the Almighty answer me! Let the accuser write my indictment!Cross-references: Job 13:3 · Job 13:21 · Job 13:24 · Job 17:3 · Job 19:7 · Job 19:11 · +11 more

36Surely I would carry it on my shoulder, and I would bind it to me as a crown.Cross-references: Ex 28:12 · Job 29:14 · Isa 22:22 · Isa 62:3 · Phil 4:1

37I would declare to him the number of my steps. I would go near to him like a prince.Cross-references: Gen 32:28 · Job 1:3 · Job 9:3 · Job 13:15 · Job 14:16 · Job 29:25 · +5 more

38If my land cries out against me, and its furrows weep together;Cross-references: Job 20:27 · Ps 65:13 · Hab 2:11 · James 5:4

39if I have eaten its fruits without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life,Cross-references: Gen 4:12 · 1Ki 21:13 · 1Ki 21:19 · Prov 1:19 · Isa 26:21 · Ezek 22:6 · +2 more

40let briers grow instead of wheat, and stinkweed instead of barley.” The words of Job are ended.Cross-references: Gen 3:17 · Ps 72:20 · Isa 7:23 · Zeph 2:9 · Mal 1:3