Berean Standard Bible

Job 31:5-23

5If I have walked in falsehood or my foot has rushed to deceit,6let God weigh me with honest scales, that He may know my integrity.7If my steps have turned from the path, if my heart has followed my eyes, or if impurity has stuck to my hands,8then may another eat what I have sown, and may my crops be uprooted.

9If my heart has been enticed by my neighbor’s wife,or I have lurked at his door,10then may my own wife grind grain for another,and may other men sleep with her.11For that would be a heinous crime,an iniquity to be judged.12For it is a fire that burns down to Abaddon;1it would root out my entire harvest.

13If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or maidservantwhen they made a complaint against me,14what will I do when God rises to judge?How will I answer when called to account?15Did not He who made me in the womb also make them?Did not the same One form us in the womb?

16If I have denied the desires of the pooror allowed the widow’s eyes to fail,17if I have eaten my morsel alone,not sharing it with the fatherless—18though from my youth I reared him as would a father,and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow—19if I have seen one perish for lack of clothing,or a needy man without a cloak,20if his heart has not blessed me2for warming him with the fleece of my sheep,21if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherlessbecause I saw that I had support in the gate,22then may my arm fall from my shoulderand be torn from its socket.23For calamity from God terrifies me,and His splendor I cannot overpower.

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Notes

1. Job 31:12 Abaddon means Destruction. ↩
2. Job 31:20 Hebrew if his loins have not blessed me ↩

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