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Job - ch 31 v 1 - 20
- I made an agreement with my eyes; how then might my eyes be looking on a virgin?
- For what is God's reward from on high, or the heritage given by the Ruler of all from heaven?
- Is it not trouble for the sinner, and destruction for the evil-doers?
- Does he not see my ways, and are not my steps all numbered?
- If I have gone in false ways, or my foot has been quick in working deceit;
- (Let me be measured in upright scales, and let God see my righteousness:)
- If my steps have been turned out of the way, or if my heart went after my eyes, or if the property of another is in my hands;
- Let me put seed in the earth for another to have the fruit of it, and let my produce be uprooted.
- If my heart went after another man's wife, or if I was waiting secretly at my neighbour's door;
- Then let my wife give pleasure to another man and let others make use of her body.
- For that would be a crime; it would be an act for which punishment would be measured out by the judges:
- It would be a fire burning even to destruction, and taking away all my produce.
- If I did wrong in the cause of my man-servant, or my woman-servant, when they went to law with me;
- What then will I do when God comes as my judge? and what answer may I give to his questions?
- Did not God make him as well as me? did he not give us life in our mothers' bodies?
- If I kept back the desire of the poor; if the widow's eye was looking for help to no purpose;
- If I kept my food for myself, and did not give some of it to the child with no father;
- (For I was cared for by God as by a father from my earliest days; he was my guide from the body of my mother;)
- If I saw one near to death for need of clothing, and that the poor had nothing covering him;
- If his back did not give me a blessing, and the wool of my sheep did not make him warm;
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