{"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/erv/job/31","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-09T23:22:16.140Z"},"reference":{"translation":"ERV","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; how then should I look upon a maid?"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"For what is the portion of God from above, and the heritage of the Almighty from on high?"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to 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 vanity, and my foot hath hasted to deceit;"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"(Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity;)"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any spot hath cleaved to mine hands:"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let the produce of my field be rooted out."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"If mine heart have been enticed unto a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbour's door:"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"For that were an heinous crime; yea, it were an iniquity to be punished by the judges:"},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"For it is a fire that consumeth unto Destruction, and would root out all mine 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 riseth up? and when he visiteth, 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 alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;"},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"(Nay, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, and I have been her guide from my mother's womb;)"},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or that the needy had no 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, 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 could do nothing."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;"},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine 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 hath been secretly enticed, and my mouth hath kissed my hand:"},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judges: for I should have lied to God that is above."},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him;"},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"(Yea, I suffered not my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse;)"},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"If the men of my tent said not, Who can find one that hath not been satisfied with his flesh?"},{"verseNumber":32,"text":"The stranger did not lodge in the street; but I opened my doors to the traveller;"},{"verseNumber":33,"text":"If like Adam I covered my transgressions, 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! (lo, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me;) and that I had the indictment which mine adversary hath written!"},{"verseNumber":36,"text":"Surely I would carry it upon my shoulder; I would bind it unto me as a crown."},{"verseNumber":37,"text":"I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him."},{"verseNumber":38,"text":"If my land cry out against me, and the furrows thereof weep together;"},{"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 (ERV)","markdown":"[Job 31](https://primebible.com/erv/job/31)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* ERV. https://primebible.com/erv/job/31 (accessed 2026-06-09)."}}