{"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/dbt/job/31","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-27T02:00:07.555Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DBT","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 mine eyes; and how should I fix my regard upon a maid?"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"For what would have been my portion of +God from above, and what the heritage of the Almighty from on high?"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Is not calamity for the unrighteous? and misfortune for the workers of iniquity?"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Doth not he see my ways, and number all my steps?"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot hath hasted to deceit,"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"(Let me be weighed in an even balance, and +God will take knowledge of my blamelessness;)"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"If my step have turned out of the way, and my heart followed mine eyes, and if any blot cleaveth to my hands;"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Let me sow, and another eat; and let mine offspring be rooted out."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"If my heart have been enticed unto a woman, so that I laid wait at my neighbour's door,"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Let my wife grind for another, and let others bow down upon her."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"For this is an infamy; yea, it is an iniquity to be judged by the judges:"},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"If I have despised the cause of my bondman or of my bondmaid, when they contended with me,"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"What then should I do when God riseth up? and if he visited, what should 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 caused the eyes of the widow to fail;"},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Or have eaten my morsel alone, so that the fatherless ate not thereof,"},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"(For from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, and I have guided the widow from my mother's womb;)"},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"If I have seen any perishing for want of clothing, or any needy without covering;"},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my lambs;"},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"If I have lifted up my hand against an orphan, because I saw my help in the gate:"},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"Then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone!"},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"For calamity from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his excellency I was powerless."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"If I have made gold my hope, or said to the fine gold, My confidence!"},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;"},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"If I beheld the sun when it shone, or the moon walking in brightness,"},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"And my heart have been secretly enticed, so that my mouth kissed my hand:"},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"This also would be an iniquity for the judge, for I should have denied the God who is above."},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, and exulted when evil befell him;"},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"(Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse;)"},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"If the men of my tent said not, Who shall find one that hath not been satisfied with his meat? —"},{"verseNumber":32,"text":"The stranger did not lodge without; I opened my doors to the pathway."},{"verseNumber":33,"text":"If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom,"},{"verseNumber":34,"text":"Because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and went not out of the door, ..."},{"verseNumber":35,"text":"Oh that I had one to hear me! Behold my signature: let the Almighty answer me! And let mine opponent write an accusation!"},{"verseNumber":36,"text":"Would I not take it upon my shoulder? I would bind it on to me as a crown;"},{"verseNumber":37,"text":"I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I come near to him."},{"verseNumber":38,"text":"If my land cry out against me, and its furrows weep together;"},{"verseNumber":39,"text":"If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, and have tormented to death the souls of its owners:"},{"verseNumber":40,"text":"Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and tares instead of barley. The words of Job are ended."}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 31 (DBT)","markdown":"[Job 31](https://primebible.com/dbt/job/31)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DBT. https://primebible.com/dbt/job/31 (accessed 2026-05-27)."}}