# Daily Bible Reading | Job 31

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# ***JOB 31***

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*Job’s Final Appeal*

\[1\] “I have made a covenant with my eyes;

how then could I gaze at a virgin?

\[2\] What would be my portion from God above

and my heritage from the Almighty on high?

\[3\] Is not calamity for the unrighteous,

and disaster for the workers of iniquity?

\[4\] Does not he see my ways

and number all my steps?

\[5\] “If I have walked with falsehood

and my foot has hastened to deceit;

\[6\] (Let me be weighed in a just balance,

and let God know my integrity!)

\[7\] if my step has turned aside from the way

and my heart has gone after my eyes,

and if any spot has stuck to my hands,

\[8\] then let me sow, and another eat,

and let what grows for me be rooted out.

\[9\] “If my heart has been enticed toward a woman,

and I have lain in wait at my neighbor’s door,

\[10\] then let my wife grind for another,

and let others bow down on her.

\[11\] For that would be a heinous crime;

that would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges;

\[12\] for that would be a fire that consumes as far as Abaddon,

and it would burn to the root all my increase.

\[13\] “If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or my maidservant,

when they brought a complaint against me,

\[14\] what then shall I do when God rises up?

When he makes inquiry, what shall I answer him?

\[15\] Did not he who made me in the womb make him?

And did not one fashion us in the womb?

\[16\] “If I have withheld anything that the poor desired,

or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

\[17\] or have eaten my morsel alone,

and the fatherless has not eaten of it

\[18\] (for from my youth the fatherless grew up with me as with a father,

and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow),

\[19\] if I have seen anyone perish for lack of clothing,

or the needy without covering,

\[20\] if his body has not blessed me,

and if he was not warmed with the fleece of my sheep,

\[21\] if I have raised my hand against the fatherless,

because I saw my help in the gate,

\[22\] then let my shoulder blade fall from my shoulder,

and let my arm be broken from its socket.

\[23\] For I was in terror of calamity from God,

and I could not have faced his majesty.

\[24\] “If I have made gold my trust

or called fine gold my confidence,

\[25\] if I have rejoiced because my wealth was abundant

or because my hand had found much,

\[26\] if I have looked at the sun when it shone,

or the moon moving in splendor,

\[27\] and my heart has been secretly enticed,

and my mouth has kissed my hand,

\[28\] this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges,

for I would have been false to God above.

\[29\] “If I have rejoiced at the ruin of him who hated me,

or exulted when evil overtook him

\[30\] (I have not let my mouth sin

by asking for his life with a curse),

\[31\] if the men of my tent have not said,

‘Who is there that has not been filled with his meat?’

\[32\] (the sojourner has not lodged in the street;

I have opened my doors to the traveler),

\[33\] if I have concealed my transgressions as others do

by hiding my iniquity in my heart,

\[34\] because I stood in great fear of the multitude,

and the contempt of families terrified me,

so that I kept silence, and did not go out of doors—

\[35\] Oh, that I had one to hear me!

(Here is my signature! Let the Almighty answer me!)

Oh, that I had the indictment written by my adversary!

\[36\] Surely I would carry it on my shoulder;

I would bind it on me as a crown;

\[37\] I would give him an account of all my steps;

like a prince I would approach him.

\[38\] “If my land has cried out against me

and its furrows have wept together,

\[39\] if I have eaten its yield without payment

and made its owners breathe their last,

\[40\] let thorns grow instead of wheat,

and foul weeds instead of barley.”

The words of Job are ended. (ESV)