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| 31:1 |  made a couenant with mine eyes; why then should I thinke vpon a mayd? |
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| 31:2 | For what portion of God is there from aboue? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high? | |
| 31:3 | Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquitie? | |
| 31:4 | Doeth not he see my wayes, and count all my steps? | |
| 31:5 | If I haue walked with vanitie, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit; | |
| 31:6 | Let me bee weighed in an euen ballance, that God may know mine integritie. |
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| 31:7 | If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaued to my hands: | |
| 31:8 | Then let mee sow, and let another eate, yea let my off-spring be rooted out. | |
| 31:9 | If mine heart haue bene deceiued by a woman, or if I haue layde wait at my neighbours doore: | |
| 31:10 | Then let my wife grind vnto another, and let others bow downe vpon her. | |
| 31:11 | For this is an heinous crime, yea, it is an iniquitie to bee punished by the Iudges. | |
| 31:12 | For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would roote out all mine encrease. | |
| 31:13 | If I did despise the cause of my man-seruant, or of my mayd-seruant, when they contended with me: | |
| 31:14 | What then shall I do, when God riseth vp? and when hee visiteth, what shall I answere him? | |
| 31:15 | Did not hee that made mee in the wombe, make him? and did not one fashion vs in the wombe? |
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| 31:16 | If I haue withhelde the poore from their desire, or haue caused the eyes of the widow to faile: | |
| 31:17 | Or haue eaten my morsell my selfe alone, and the fatherlesse hath not eaten thereof: | |
| 31:18 | (For from my youth hee was brought vp with me as with a father, and I haue guided her from my mothers wombe.) |
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| 31:19 | If I haue seene any perish for want of cloathing, or any poore without couering: | |
| 31:20 | If his loynes haue not blessed me, and if hee were not warmed with the fleece of my sheepe: | |
| 31:21 | If I haue lift vp my hand against the fatherlesse, when I saw my helpe in the gate: | |
| 31:22 | Then let mine arme fall from my shoulder-blade, and mine arme be broken from the bone. |
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| 31:23 | For destruction from God was a terrour to mee: and by reason of his highnesse, I could not endure. | |
| 31:24 | If I haue made golde my hope, or haue said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence: | |
| 31:25 | If I reioyced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much: |
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| 31:26 | If I beheld the Sunne when it shined, or the Moone walking in brightnesse: |
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| 31:27 | And my heart hath bene secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand: |
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| 31:28 | This also were an iniquitie to be punished by the Iudge: For I should haue denied the God that is aboue. | |
| 31:29 | If I reioyced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lift vp my selfe when euill found him: | |
| 31:30 | (Neither haue I suffered my mouth to sinne by wishing a curse to his soule.) |
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| 31:31 | If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! wee cannot be satisfied. | |
| 31:32 | The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doores to the trauailer. |
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| 31:33 | If I couered my transgressions, as Adam: by hiding mine iniquitie in my bosome: |
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| 31:34 | Did I feare a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrifie me: that I kept silence, and went not out of the doore? | |
| 31:35 | O that one would heare me! beholde, my desire is, that the Almightie would answere me, and that mine aduersary had written a booke. |
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| 31:36 | Surely I would take it vpon my shoulder, and bind it as a crowne to me. | |
| 31:37 | I would declare vnto him the number of my steps, as a prince would I goe neere vnto him. | |
| 31:38 | If my land cry against me, or that the furrowes likewise thereof complaine: |
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| 31:39 | If I haue eaten the fruits thereof without money, or haue caused the owners thereof to loose their life: |
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| 31:40 | Let thistles grow in stead of wheat, and cockle in stead of barley. The words of Iob are ended. |
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