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A covenant I made for mine eyes, And what -- do I attend to a virgin?
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And what is the portion of God from above? And the inheritance of the Mighty from the heights?
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Is not calamity to the perverse? And strangeness to workers of iniquity?
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Doth not He see my ways, And all my steps number?
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If I have walked with vanity, And my foot doth hasten to deceit,
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He doth weigh me in righteous balances, And God doth know my integrity.
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If my step doth turn aside from the way, And after mine eyes hath my heart gone, And to my hands cleaved hath blemish,
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Let me sow -- and another eat, And my products let be rooted out.
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If my heart hath been enticed by woman, And by the opening of my neighbour I laid wait,
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Grind to another let my wife, And over her let others bend.
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For it is a wicked thing, and a judicial iniquity;
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For a fire it is, to destruction it consumeth, And among all mine increase doth take root,
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If I despise the cause of my man-servant, And of my handmaid, In their contending with me,
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Then what do I do when God ariseth? And when He doth inspect, What do I answer Him?
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Did not He that made me in the womb make him? Yea, prepare us in the womb doth One.
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If I withhold from pleasure the poor, And the eyes of the widow do consume,
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And I do eat my morsel by myself, And the orphan hath not eat of it,
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(But from my youth He grew up with me as with a father, And from the belly of my mother I am led.)
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If I see any perishing without clothing, And there is no covering to the needy,
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If his loins have not blessed me, And from the fleece of my sheep He doth not warm himself,
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If I have waved at the fatherless my hand, When I see in him the gate of my court,
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My shoulder from its blade let fall, And mine arm from the bone be broken.
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For a dread unto me is calamity from God, And because of His excellency I am not able.
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If I have made gold my confidence, And to the pure gold have said, `My trust,`
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If I rejoice because great is my wealth, And because abundance hath my hand found,
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If I see the light when it shineth, And the precious moon walking,
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And my heart is enticed in secret, And my hand doth kiss my mouth,
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It also is a judicial iniquity, For I had lied to God above.
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If I rejoice at the ruin of my hater, And stirred up myself when evil found him,
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Yea, I have not suffered my mouth to sin, To ask with an oath his life.
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If not -- say ye, O men of my tent, `O that we had of his flesh, we are not satisfied.`
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In the street doth not lodge a stranger, My doors to the traveller I open.
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If I have covered as Adam my transgressions, To hide in my bosom mine iniquity,
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Because I fear a great multitude, And the contempt of families doth affright me, Then I am silent, I go not out of the opening.
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Who giveth to me a hearing? lo, my mark. The Mighty One doth answer me, And a bill hath mine adversary written.
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If not -- on my shoulder I take it up, I bind it a crown on myself.
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The number of my steps I tell Him, As a leader I approach Him.
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If against me my land doth cry out, And together its furrows weep,
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If its strength I consumed without money, And the life of its possessors, I have caused to breathe out,
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Instead of wheat let a thorn go forth, And instead of barley a useless weed! The words of Job are finished.
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