Job 31

Versículo 1. “I have made a covenant with my eyes. How then could I gaze with desire at a virgin?

Versículo 2. For what is the allotment of God from above, or the heritage from the Almighty on high?

Versículo 3. Does not disaster come to the unjust and calamity to the workers of iniquity?

Versículo 4. Does He not see my ways and count my every step?

Versículo 5. If I have walked in falsehood or my foot has rushed to deceit,

Versículo 6. let God weigh me with honest scales, that He may know my integrity.

Versículo 7. If my steps have turned from the path, if my heart has followed my eyes, or if impurity has stuck to my hands,

Versículo 8. then may another eat what I have sown, and may my crops be uprooted.

Versículo 9. If my heart has been enticed by my neighbor’s wife, or I have lurked at his door,

Versículo 10. then may my own wife grind grain for another, and may other men sleep with her.

Versículo 11. For that would be a heinous crime, an iniquity to be judged.

Versículo 12. For it is a fire that burns down to Abaddon; it would root out my entire harvest.

Versículo 13. If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or maidservant when they made a complaint against me,

Versículo 14. what will I do when God rises to judge? How will I answer when called to account?

Versículo 15. Did not He who made me in the womb also make them? Did not the same One form us in the womb?

Versículo 16. If I have denied the desires of the poor or allowed the widow’s eyes to fail,

Versículo 17. if I have eaten my morsel alone, not sharing it with the fatherless—

Versículo 18. though from my youth I reared him as would a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow—

Versículo 19. if I have seen one perish for lack of clothing, or a needy man without a cloak,

Versículo 20. if his heart has not blessed me for warming him with the fleece of my sheep,

Versículo 21. if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless because I saw that I had support in the gate,

Versículo 22. then may my arm fall from my shoulder and be torn from its socket.

Versículo 23. For calamity from God terrifies me, and His splendor I cannot overpower.

Versículo 24. If I have put my trust in gold or called pure gold my security,

Versículo 25. if I have rejoiced in my great wealth because my hand had gained so much,

Versículo 26. if I have beheld the sun in its radiance or the moon moving in splendor,

Versículo 27. so that my heart was secretly enticed and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth,

Versículo 28. this would also be an iniquity to be judged, for I would have denied God on high.

Versículo 29. If I have rejoiced in my enemy’s ruin, or exulted when evil befell him—

Versículo 30. I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking for his life with a curse—

Versículo 31. if the men of my house have not said, ‘Who is there who has not had his fill?’—

Versículo 32. but no stranger had to lodge on the street, for my door has been open to the traveler—

Versículo 33. if I have covered my transgressions like Adam by hiding my guilt in my heart,

Versículo 34. because I greatly feared the crowds and the contempt of the clans terrified me, so that I kept silent and would not go outside—

Versículo 35. (Oh, that I had one to hear me! Here is my signature. Let the Almighty answer me; let my accuser compose an indictment.

Versículo 36. Surely I would carry it on my shoulder and wear it like a crown.

Versículo 37. I would give account of all my steps; I would approach Him like a prince.)—

Versículo 38. if my land cries out against me and its furrows weep together,

Versículo 39. if I have devoured its produce without payment or broken the spirit of its tenants,

Versículo 40. then let briers grow instead of wheat and stinkweed instead of barley.” Thus conclude the words of Job.