{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/akjv/job/31","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T09:53:34.518Z"},"reference":{"translation":"AKJV","book":"Job","bookSlug":"job","chapter":31,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":30,"nextChapter":32,"totalChapters":42,"totalVerses":40},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"I made a covenant with my eyes; why then should I think on a maid?"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Does not he see my ways, and count all my steps?"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot has hurried to deceit;"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Let me be weighed in an even balance that God may know my integrity."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"If my step has turned out of the way, and my heart walked after my eyes, and if any blot has stuck to my hands;"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Then let me sow, and let another eat; yes, let my offspring be rooted out."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"If my heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbor's door;"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Then let my wife grind to another, and let others bow down on her."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"For this is an heinous crime; yes, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"For it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"What then shall I do when God rises up? and when he visits, what shall I answer him?"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;"},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless has not eaten thereof;"},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)"},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;"},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;"},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:"},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"Then let my arm fall from my shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from the bone."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, You are my confidence;"},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"If I rejoice because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;"},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;"},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"And my heart has been secretly enticed, or my mouth has kissed my hand:"},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above."},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"If I rejoice at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:"},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul."},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh!  we cannot be satisfied."},{"verseNumber":32,"text":"The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the travelers."},{"verseNumber":33,"text":"If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom:"},{"verseNumber":34,"text":"Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door?"},{"verseNumber":35,"text":"Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that my adversary had written a book."},{"verseNumber":36,"text":"Surely I would take it on my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me."},{"verseNumber":37,"text":"I would declare to him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near to him."},{"verseNumber":38,"text":"If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;"},{"verseNumber":39,"text":"If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:"},{"verseNumber":40,"text":"Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley.  The words of Job are ended."}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 31 (AKJV)","markdown":"[Job 31](https://primebible.com/akjv/job/31)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* AKJV. https://primebible.com/akjv/job/31 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}