{"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/web/job/31","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-09T23:22:08.446Z"},"reference":{"translation":"WEB","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, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"For what is the portion from God above, and the heritage from the Almighty on high?"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Doesn't he see my ways, and number all my steps?"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"|If I have walked with falsehood, and 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, if my heart walked after my eyes, if any defilement has stuck to my hands,"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"then let me sow, and let another eat. Yes, let the produce of my field be rooted out."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"|If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbor's door,"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"then let my wife grind for another, and let others sleep with her."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"For that would be a heinous crime. Yes, it would be 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 have despised the cause of my male servant or of my female servant, when they contended with me;"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"What then shall I do when God rises up? When he visits, what shall I answer him?"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Didn't he who made me in the womb make him? Didn't 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 has not eaten of it"},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"(no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, her have I guided 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 heart hasn't blessed me, if he hasn't been warmed with my sheep's fleece;"},{"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 my arm be broken from the bone."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"For calamity from God is a terror to me. Because his majesty, I can do nothing."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"|If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, 'You are my confidence;'"},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;"},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"if I have seen the sun when it shined, or the moon moving in splendor,"},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth,"},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges; for I should have denied the God who is above."},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"|If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him;"},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"(yes, I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse);"},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"if the men of my tent have not said, 'Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?'"},{"verseNumber":32,"text":"(the foreigner has not lodged in the street, but I have opened my doors to the traveler);"},{"verseNumber":33,"text":"if like Adam I have covered my transgressions, by hiding my iniquity in my heart,"},{"verseNumber":34,"text":"because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and didn't go out of the door—"},{"verseNumber":35,"text":"oh that I had one to hear me! (behold, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me); let the accuser write my indictment!"},{"verseNumber":36,"text":"Surely I would carry it on my shoulder; and I would bind it to me as a crown."},{"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 cries out against me, and its furrows weep together;"},{"verseNumber":39,"text":"if I have eaten its fruits without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life,"},{"verseNumber":40,"text":"let briars grow instead of wheat, and stinkweed instead of barley.| The words of Job are ended."}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 31 (WEB)","markdown":"[Job 31](https://primebible.com/web/job/31)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* WEB. https://primebible.com/web/job/31 (accessed 2026-06-09)."}}