Job 31 | BSB Bible Study

Job 31:1 (BSB)
“I have made a covenant with my eyes. How then could I gaze with desire at a virgin?

Job 31:2 (BSB)
For what is the allotment of God from above, or the heritage from the Almighty on high?

Job 31:3 (BSB)
Does not disaster come to the unjust and calamity to the workers of iniquity?

Job 31:4 (BSB)
Does He not see my ways and count my every step?

Job 31:5 (BSB)
If I have walked in falsehood or my foot has rushed to deceit,

Job 31:6 (BSB)
let God weigh me with honest scales, that He may know my integrity.

Job 31:7 (BSB)
If my steps have turned from the path, if my heart has followed my eyes, or if impurity has stuck to my hands,

Job 31:8 (BSB)
then may another eat what I have sown, and may my crops be uprooted.

Job 31:9 (BSB)
If my heart has been enticed by my neighbor’s wife, or I have lurked at his door,

Job 31:10 (BSB)
then may my own wife grind grain for another, and may other men sleep with her.

Job 31:11 (BSB)
For that would be a heinous crime, an iniquity to be judged.

Job 31:12 (BSB)
For it is a fire that burns down to Abaddon; it would root out my entire harvest.

Job 31:13 (BSB)
If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or maidservant when they made a complaint against me,

Job 31:14 (BSB)
what will I do when God rises to judge? How will I answer when called to account?

Job 31:15 (BSB)
Did not He who made me in the womb also make them? Did not the same One form us in the womb?

Job 31:16 (BSB)
If I have denied the desires of the poor or allowed the widow’s eyes to fail,

Job 31:17 (BSB)
if I have eaten my morsel alone, not sharing it with the fatherless—

Job 31:18 (BSB)
though from my youth I reared him as would a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow—

Job 31:19 (BSB)
if I have seen one perish for lack of clothing, or a needy man without a cloak,

Job 31:20 (BSB)
if his heart has not blessed me for warming him with the fleece of my sheep,

Job 31:21 (BSB)
if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless because I saw that I had support in the gate,

Job 31:22 (BSB)
then may my arm fall from my shoulder and be torn from its socket.

Job 31:23 (BSB)
For calamity from God terrifies me, and His splendor I cannot overpower.

Job 31:24 (BSB)
If I have put my trust in gold or called pure gold my security,

Job 31:25 (BSB)
if I have rejoiced in my great wealth because my hand had gained so much,

Job 31:26 (BSB)
if I have beheld the sun in its radiance or the moon moving in splendor,

Job 31:27 (BSB)
so that my heart was secretly enticed and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth,

Job 31:28 (BSB)
this would also be an iniquity to be judged, for I would have denied God on high.

Job 31:29 (BSB)
If I have rejoiced in my enemy’s ruin, or exulted when evil befell him—

Job 31:30 (BSB)
I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking for his life with a curse—

Job 31:31 (BSB)
if the men of my house have not said, ‘Who is there who has not had his fill?’—

Job 31:32 (BSB)
but no stranger had to lodge on the street, for my door has been open to the traveler—

Job 31:33 (BSB)
if I have covered my transgressions like Adam by hiding my guilt in my heart,

Job 31:34 (BSB)
because I greatly feared the crowds and the contempt of the clans terrified me, so that I kept silent and would not go outside—

Job 31:35 (BSB)
(Oh, that I had one to hear me! Here is my signature. Let the Almighty answer me; let my accuser compose an indictment.

Job 31:36 (BSB)
Surely I would carry it on my shoulder and wear it like a crown.

Job 31:37 (BSB)
I would give account of all my steps; I would approach Him like a prince.)—

Job 31:38 (BSB)
if my land cries out against me and its furrows weep together,

Job 31:39 (BSB)
if I have devoured its produce without payment or broken the spirit of its tenants,

Job 31:40 (BSB)
then let briers grow instead of wheat and stinkweed instead of barley.” Thus conclude the words of Job.

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