Job 31

¹I made a covenant with mine eyes; and how should I fix my regard upon a maid?

²For what would have been [my] portion of God from above, and what the heritage of the Almighty from on high?

³Is not calamity for the unrighteous? and misfortune for the workers of iniquity?

⁴Doth not he see my ways, and number all my steps?

⁵If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot hath hasted to deceit,

⁶(Let me be weighed in an even balance, and God will take knowledge of my blamelessness;)

⁷If my step have turned out of the way, and my heart followed mine eyes, and if any blot cleaveth to my hands;

⁸Let me sow, and another eat; and let mine offspring be rooted out.

⁹If my heart have been enticed unto a woman, so that I laid wait at my neighbour's door,

¹⁰Let my wife grind for another, and let others bow down upon her.

¹¹For this is an infamy; yea, it is an iniquity [to be judged by] the judges:

¹²For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.

¹³If I have despised the cause of my bondman or of my bondmaid, when they contended with me,

¹⁴What then should I do when God riseth up? and if he visited, what should I answer him?

¹⁵Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not One fashion us in the womb?