“Job Asserts His Integrity”
¶ I made a covenant with mine eyes;
¶ How then should I look upon a virgin?
¶ For what is the portion from God above,
¶ And the heritage from the Almighty on high?
¶ Is it not calamity to the unrighteous,
¶ And disaster to the workers of iniquity?
¶ Doth not he see my ways,
¶ And number all my steps?
¶ If I have walked with falsehood,
¶ And my foot hath hasted to deceit
¶ (Let me be weighed in an even balance,
¶ That God may know mine integrity);
¶ If my step hath turned out of the way,
¶ And my heart walked after mine eyes,
¶ And if any spot hath cleaved to my hands:
¶ Then let me sow, and let another eat;
¶ Yea, let the produce of my field be rooted out.
¶ If my heart hath been enticed unto a woman,
¶ And I have laid wait at my neighbor’s door;
¶ Then let my wife grind unto another,
¶ And let others bow down upon her.
¶ For that were a heinous crime;
¶ Yea, it were an iniquity to be punished by the judges:
¶ For it is a fire that consumeth unto Destruction,
¶ And would root out all mine increase.
¶ If I have despised the cause of my man-servant or of my maid-servant,
¶ When they contended with me;
¶ What then shall I do when God riseth up?
¶ And when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?
¶ Did not he that made me in the womb make him?
¶ And did not one fashion us in the womb?
¶ If I have withheld the poor from their desire,
¶ Or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
¶ Or have eaten my morsel alone,
¶ And the fatherless hath not eaten thereof
¶ (Nay, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father,
¶ And her have I guided from my mother’s womb);
¶ If I have seen any perish for want of clothing,
¶ Or that the needy had no covering;
¶ If his loins have not blessed me,
¶ And if he hath not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
¶ If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless,
¶ Because I saw my help in the gate:
¶ Then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade,
¶ And mine arm be broken from the bone.
¶ For calamity from God is a terror to me,
¶ And by reason of his majesty I can do nothing.
¶ If I have made gold my hope,
¶ And have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;
¶ If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great,
¶ And because my hand had gotten much;
¶ If I have beheld the sun when it shined,
¶ Or the moon walking in brightness,
¶ And my heart hath been secretly enticed,
¶ And my mouth hath kissed my hand:
¶ This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judges;
¶ For I should have denied the God that is above.
¶ If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me,
¶ Or lifted up myself when evil found him
¶ (Yea, I have not suffered my mouth to sin
¶ By asking his life with a curse);
¶ If the men of my tent have not said,
¶ Who can find one that hath not been filled with his meat?
¶ (The sojourner hath not lodged in the street;
¶ But I have opened my doors to the traveller);
¶ If like Adam I have covered my transgressions,
¶ By hiding mine iniquity in my bosom,
¶ Because I feared the great multitude,
¶ And the contempt of families terrified me,
¶ So that I kept silence, and went not out of the door—
¶ Oh that I had one to hear me!
¶ (Lo, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me)
¶ And that I had the indictment which mine adversary hath written!
¶ Surely I would carry it upon my shoulder;
¶ I would bind it unto me as a crown:
¶ I would declare unto him the number of my steps;
¶ As a prince would I go near unto him.
¶ If my land crieth out against me,
¶ And the furrows thereof weep together;
¶ If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money,
¶ Or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:
¶ Let thistles grow instead of wheat,
¶ And cockle instead of barley.
¶ The words of Job are ended.
I made a covenant with mine ________.
Job’s only fear was of___________ .
Job had been ___ to the LORD.
Why did Job want his adversary to write down his complaints?
Who had Job given an accounting to of himself?
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