Douay Rheims Bible

Job 30

The Book of Job

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Chapter 31

1

 I made a covenant with my eyes, that I would not so much as think upon a virgin. 

 


2

 For what part should God from above have in me, and what inheritance the Almighty from on high? 

 


3

 Is not destruction to the wicked, and aversion to them that work iniquity? 

 


4

 Doth not he consider my ways, and number all my steps? 

 


5

 If I have walked in vanity, and my foot hath made haste to deceit: 

 


6

 Let him weigh me in a just balance, and let God know my simplicity. 

 


7

 If my step hath turned out of the way, and if my heart hath followed my eyes, and if a spot hath cleaved to my hands: 

 


8

 Then let me sow and let another eat: and let my offspring be rooted out. 

 


9

 If my heart hath been deceived upon a woman, and if I have laid wait at my friend's door: 

 


10

 Let my wife be the harlot of another, and let other men lie with her. 

 


11

 For this is a heinous crime, and a most grievous iniquity. 

 


12

 It is a fire that devoureth even to destruction, and rooteth up all things that spring. 

 


13

 If I have despised to abide judgment with my manservant, or my maidservant, when they had any controversy against me: 

 


14

 For what shall I do when God shall rise to judge? and when he shall examine, what shall I answer him? 

 


15

 Did not he that made me in the womb make him also: and did not one and the same form me in the womb? 

 


16

 If I have denied to the poor what they desired, and have made the eyes of the widow wait: 

 


17

 If I have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof: 

 


18

 (For from my infancy mercy grew up with me: and it came out with me from my mother's womb :) 

 


19

 If I have despised him that was perishing for want of clothing, and the poor man that had no covering: 

 


20

 If his sides have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep: 

 


21

 If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, even when I saw myself superior in the gate: 

 


22

 Let my shoulder fall from its joint, and let my arm with its bones be broken. 

 


23

 For I have always feared God as waves swelling over me, and his weight I was not able to bear. 

 


24

 If I have thought gold my strength, and have said to fine gold: My confidence: 

 


25

 If I have rejoiced over my great riches, and because my hand had gotten much. 

 


26

 If I beheld the sun when it shined, and the moon going in brightness: 

 


27

 And my heart in secret hath rejoiced, and I have kissed my hand with my mouth: 

 


28

 Which is a very great iniquity, and a denial against the most high God. 

 


29

 If I have been glad at the downfall of him that hated me, and have rejoiced that evil had found him. 

 


30

 For I have not given my mouth to sin, by wishing a curse to his soul. 

 


31

 If the men of my tabernacle have not said: Who will give us of his flesh that we may be filled? 

 


32

 The stranger did not stay without, my door was open to the traveller. 

 


33

 If as a man I have hid my sin, and have concealed my iniquity in my bosom. 

 


34

 If I have been afraid at a very great multitude, and the contempt of kinsmen hath terrified me: and I have not rather held my peace, and not gone out of the door. 

 


35

 Who would grant me a hearer, that the Almighty may hear my desire; and that he himself that judgeth would write a book, 

 


36

 That I may carry it on my shoulder, and put it about me as a crown? 

 


37

 At every step of mine I would pronounce it, and offer it as to a prince. 

 


38

 If my land cry against me, and with it the furrows thereof mourn: 

 


39

 If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, and have afflicted the soul of the tillers thereof: 

 


40

 Let thistles grow up to me instead of wheat, and thorns instead of barley. 

 


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