Job 31:5-23

5If I have walked with vanity, and my foot hath hasted to deceit;

6(Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity;)

7If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any spot hath cleaved to mine hands:

8Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let the produce of my field be rooted out.

9If mine heart have been enticed unto a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbour’s door:

10Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.

11For that were an heinous crime; yea, it were an iniquity to be punished by the judges:

12For it is a fire that consumeth unto Destruction, and would root out all mine increase.

13If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me:

14What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?

15Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?

16If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

17Or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;

18(Nay, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, and I have been her guide from my mother’s womb;)

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.