Job 31

¹I made a covenant with my eyes, that I would not so much as think upon a virgin.

²For what part should God from above have in me, and what inheritance the Almighty from on high?

³Is not destruction to the wicked, and aversion to them that work iniquity?

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

⁵If I have walked in vanity, and my foot hath made haste to deceit:

⁶Let him weigh me in a just balance, and let God know my simplicity.

⁷If 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:

⁸Then let me sow and let another eat: and let my offspring be rooted out.

⁹If my heart hath been deceived upon a woman, and if I have laid wait at my friend’s door:

¹⁰Let my wife be the harlot of another, and let other men lie with her.

¹¹For this is a heinous crime, and a most grievous iniquity.

¹²It is a fire that devoureth even to destruction, and rooteth up all things that spring.

¹³If I have despised to abide judgment with my manservant, or my maidservant, when they had any controversy against me:

¹⁴For what shall I do when God shall rise to judge? and when he shall examine, what shall I answer him?

¹⁵Did not he that made me in the womb make him also: and did not one and the same form me in the womb?