Job 31
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Revised Version 1895

Job 31:19-34

19If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;

20If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

21If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate:

22Then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.

23For calamity from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his excellency I could do nothing.

24If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;

25If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much;

26If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;

27And my heart hath been secretly enticed, and my mouth hath kissed my hand:

28This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judges: for I should have lied to God that is above.

29If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him;

30(Yea, I suffered not my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse;)

31If the men of my tent said not, Who can find one that hath not been satisfied with his flesh?

32The stranger did not lodge in the street; but I opened my doors to the traveller;

33If like Adam I covered my transgressions, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom;

34Because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and went not out of the door—

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Revised Version 1895 — 1895 — Public Domain