Job’s Final Appeal

1I cut out a covenant for mine eyes; and why shall I show myself attentive to a virgin?

2And what the portion of God from above? and the inheritance of the Almighty from the heights?

3Is not destruction to the evil one? and strangeness to those working iniquity?

4Will he not see my way, and number all my steps?

5If I went with vanity, and my foot will haste upon deceit;

6He shall weigh me in balances of justice, and God will know mine integrity.

7If my going will incline from the way, and my heart went after mine eyes, and a blemish did cleave upon my hands:

8I will sow and another shall eat; and my offspring shall be rooted up.

9If my heart was seduced by woman, and I laid wait at the door of my neighbor;

10My wife shall grind for another, and others shall bow down upon her.

11For this is crime, and this is iniquity for the judges.

12For it is a fire; it will devour even to destruction, and will root out upon all mine increase.

13If I shall despise the judgment of my servant and my maid in their contending with me;

14And what shall I do when God shall rise up? And when he shall review, what shall I turn back to him?

15Did not he making me in the womb, make him? And he will prepare us in one belly.

16If I shall withhold from the desire of the poor, and cause the eyes of the widow to fail;

17And eating my morsel alone, and the orphan ate not from it;

18(For from my youth he grew up to me as a father, and I shall guide her from my mother's womb;)

19If I shall see one perishing from not being clothed, and no covering to the needy;

20If his loins did not praise me, and he will be warmed from the fleece of my sheep.

21If I lifted up my hand against the orphan when I shall see, my help in the gate:

22My shoulder shall fall from its shoulder-blade, and mine, arm shall be broken from the bone.

23For the destruction of God is a terror to me, and from his lifting up I shall not prevail.

24If I set gold my hope, and said to gold, My trust;

25If I shall rejoice because of the Multitude of my riches, and because my hand found much;

26If I shall see the light when it shall shine, and the moon going in splendor;

27And my heart will be seduced in secret, and my hand shall kiss to my mouth:

28Also this an iniquity for the judges: for I lied to God from above.

29If I shall rejoice in the destruction of him hating me, and I exalted when evil found him:

30And I gave not my palate to sin to ask in cursing his soul.

31If the men of my tent said not, Who will give from his flesh? We shall not be satisfied.

32The stranger shall not lodge without: I shall open my doors to the traveler.

33If I covered my transgression, as man, to hide mine iniquity in my bosom:

34If I, shall fear a great multitude, and the contempt of families terrify me, and I will be silent and not go out of my door.

35Who will give to me hearing to me? Behold, my sign, the Almighty will answer me, and the man contending with me wrote a book.

36If not, I shall lift it up upon my shoulder, I will bind it a crown to me.

37The number of my steps I shall announce to him: as a leader I shall draw near to him.

38If my land shall cry against me, and its, furrows shall weep together;

39If I ate its strength without silver, and caused its possessors to expire:

40The thorn shall come forth, instead of wheat, and the weed instead of barley. The words of Job were completed.