Part 322 (2/2)
30:30. My skin is become black upon me, and my bones are dried up with heat.
30:31. My harp is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of those that weep.
Job Chapter 31
Job, to defend himself from the unjust judgments of his friends, gives a sincere account of his own virtues.
31:1. I made a covenant with my eyes, that I would not so much as think upon a virgin.
31:2. For what part should G.o.d from above have in me, and what inheritance the Almighty from on high?
31:3. Is not destruction to the wicked, and aversion to them that work iniquity?
31:4. Doth not he consider my ways, and number all my steps?
31:5. If I have walked in vanity, and my foot hath made haste to deceit:
31:6. Let him weigh me in a just balance, and let G.o.d know my simplicity.
31:7. 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:
31:8. Then let me sow and let another reap: and let my offspring be rooted out.
31:9. If my heart hath been deceived upon a woman, and if I have laid wait at my friend's door:
31:10. Let my wife be the harlot of another, and let other men lie with her.
31:11. For this is a heinous crime, and a most grievous iniquity.
31:12. It is a fire that devoureth even to destruction, and rooteth up all things that spring.
31:13. If I have despised to abide judgment with my manservant, or my maidservant, when they had any controversy against me:
31:14. For what shall I do when G.o.d shall rise to judge? and when he shall examine, what shall I answer him?
31:15. Did not he that made me in the womb make him also: and did not one and the same form me in the womb?
31:16. If I have denied to the poor what they desired, and have made the eyes of the widow wait:
31:17. If I have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof:
31:18. (For from my infancy mercy grew up with me: and it came out with me from my mother's womb:)
31:19. If I have despised him that was peris.h.i.+ng for want of clothing, and the poor man that had no covering:
31:20. If his sides have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep:
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